Key Ideas
What is main idea?
What the text is mostly about?
What are text structures?
How a text is organized.
What is a first hand account?
A person experiences the event as it happened and then writes about it.
What is an informational text?
What is author's purpose?
Reasons for writing an article.
What is summarizing?
Restating the main idea and details about a topic.
What is problem and solution?
A challenge or obstacle and how it is solved.
What is a second hand account?
A person does not experience the event. They read about it or learn about it and then write about it.
What are visuals?
photos, diagrams, timelines, graphs, ...that explain more about a topic
What does it mean to persuade?
To convince someone to see your side
What is a summary?
A written piece restating the topic in your own words.
What is cause and effect?
What is a historical text?
Historical texts are on events in history. They explain what happened and why.
What is quantitative information?
Information in the form of numbers....like graphs.
What does it mean to inform?
You explain something to someone mainly with facts.
What are context clues?
Synonyms, antonyms, examples, descriptions, to figure out unknown meanings of words.
What is comparison?
Comparing two things, finding their similarities and differences.
What is a scientific text?
Science text explaining the cause and effect relationship in nature.
What does it mean to integrate information?
combine information from two or more sources
What is author's reasons?
What are inferences?
a reasonable guess
What is chronology?
Time order
What is a technical text?
A text on procedure. Steps on how to do something.
To be like an expert. To know all there is to know about a topic.
What is author's evidence?
facts, examples, etc that explain more and prove their reasons or opinion