Definitions
What is to infer?
Main idea, theme and tone
What are big picture questions?
Require you to make a guess or forecast of what will happen in the future.
What are predicting questions?
What is the authors main theme?
What is big picture?
writing to give someone something fun to read
to entertain
The answer is right there in the passage
What is factual questions?
Next, future, later on
What are predicting questions?
Require you to make sense of something.
What are clarifying questions?
What is the reason for the character doing a certain thing?
What is clarifying?
writing to make something think something or feel something the same way you do.
to persuade
The answer is not in the passage.
What are Think and Seek Questions?
explain something, give a reason, give a cause
The place the story is located
What is the setting?
What would have happened if the character had done something differently?
What is predicting?
Writing to explain something or give information is what purpose?
to inform
The three types of think and seek questions
What are predicting, clarifying, and big picture?
A short statement about the story overall
What is a summary?
The feeling of the passage
What is the color of the boys hair?
What is factual?
What are the three types of writing?
To entertain, inform, or pursuade
Require you to figure out the main idea or big message or theme of the passage.
What are big picture questions?
The reason the author wrote the text.
What is purpose?
Another word for the message of the story or text
What is theme?
What is the setting of the story
What is big picture question?
What are the three requirements of a good answer?
A complete thought (subject verb), Answers the question, Relates to the text