Main Idea/Details
The most important ideas or information in a text
What are main ideas?
Recognizing similarities and differences between people, places, things, and ideas, or across time
What is compare and contrast?
Why something happens and the result
What is cause and effect?
Logical guesses suggested by evidence
What are inferences?
Language that is not meant to be taken literally
What is figurative language?
These support the main ideas and help the reader understand the main ideas
What are supporting details?
Both, also, however, unlike, in contrast
What are words that signal compare and contrast?
Because, since, as a result, so
What are words that signal cause-effect relationships?
Inferring is sometimes called __________
What is "reading between the lines?"
What is poetry?
The main idea of an entire text can usually be found here
What is the introductory paragraph?
Words ending in -er and -est
What are words that show contrast?
Sometimes one cause sets off a series of effects, such that each effect becomes the cause of the other effect
What is a chain reaction?
When making an inference, reading combine information in the text with __________
What is their own knowledge (or schema)?
Name three types of figurative language
What are similes, metaphors, and personification?
Some main ideas are stated directly in the text, but some are not. These main ideas must be __________
What is inferred?
This graphic organizer is used to show similarities and differences
What is a Venn diagram?
What is the effect?
Wash your hands, wear a face covering, and wait six feet apart, so you don't get COVID-19.
Protect yourself from COVID-19.
In fiction, readers can infer the feelings, motivation, or personality of these people
What are characters?
This type of figurative language gives a nonhuman or inanimate thing a human characteristic
What is personfication?
Tell the main idea of this paragraph:
Our lives have changed drastically due to COVID-19. Schools have closed all over the world. Businesses have be forced to shut down. People were asked to stay in their homes and wear masks in public places.
Our lives have changed a lot because of COVID-19.
What is this an example of?
Both in-person school and Asynchronous school require homework.
What is a comparison?
What is the cause?
We had a mix of online and in-person classes because of COVID-19.
COVID-19
Make an inference:
I wear a face covering in public, wash my hands regularly, and stand six feet apart from others.
I will stay healthy and not get COVID-19.
Name the type of figurative language:
The coronavirus is like a mean monster.
What is a simile?