A shorter version of a text or story.
What is a summary?
What is a claim?
What the passage is about
What is a topic?
Figuring this out helps you understand the text better
What is a main idea?
Three sections of the outline to writing a summary. Similar to saying the "beginning, middle, and end."
What is the introduction, body, and conclusion?
What is the name for paragraphs or groups of lines in poems?
What is a stanza
What is the main idea of this story?
What do you need to bring on a picnic? First, you need to bring a basket. Put your food in the basket. It will be sunny at the picnic so bring sunscreen! Next, you need to bring a blanket to sit on. Now, you can go to the picnic.
What is what to bring on a picnic?
You always support an inference with what from the text?
Evidence. Quotes from the text provide very strong evidence.
In fictional texts, this is a lesson about life that the author wants the reader to understand.
What is theme?