Determining Text Clues
Words that have similar meanings.
What is a synonym?
Painting a picture with words is this type of text structure.
What is description?
Clues for a main idea can be found here.
What is the topic sentence?
Making the wrong one of these could really cause problems.
What is inference?
The point of view tells this about the author.
What is the author's attitude?
What are Context Clues?
One, two, three and so on defines this.
What is Sequence?
Important details support this piece of a paragraph.
What is the main idea?
This is an indirect, implied, statement filled with clues.
What is an implicit statement?
What is the author's language?
Words that have familiar syllables and can be used to help us find a word's meaning.
What are word parts?
Topic sentence, supporting details, and concluding sentences all belong in this group.
What are the parts of a paragraph?
The 5 W's and how.
What does a summary include?
Very clear to the point statements qualify as this.
What is explicit?
These three things are writing tones.
What are serious, humorous, sympathetic?
Oxymoron and alliteration are both part of the this category.
What is figurative language?
What is Problem and Solution?
The main idea can be found using details and this other thing.
What are definitions?
What is the formula for inference?
Primary and secondary sources help this process.
What is analyzing informational texts?
Punctuation is part of this set of clues.
What are context clues?
What are supporting details?
What are interpret and draw conclusions?
This can be determined about the author through inferences.
Up-to-date, unbiased, and objective evidence should be present to analyze it.
What is an arguments and claims text?