Central Idea
Locations in a text to help determine the central idea.
What is the title, the beginning, and the end?
To surprise her mother on her birthday, Samantha got up early and make coffee. First, she filled the pot with water. Then she cleaned and replaced the filter. Next, she got fresh coffee, measured just the right amount, and poured it into the filter. Finally, she pressed the "on" button and within seconds, the aroma of the fresh-brewed coffee filled the house. The MAIN text structure used in this paragraph is . . .
What is sequence?
This text feature would help you find facts about a particular subject or topic?
What is the heading?
Candles, flashlights, and lamps illuminate the room. Using the example clue, the word illuminate in this sentence means.
Which means light up because the clues were candles, flashlight and lamps, these items all provide light?
Biography, Newspaper, Textbook, How-to-Books, History and Science.
What are types of Non-Fiction books?
These two words/phrases are equivalent to central idea.
This phrase is equivalent to supporting details.
What are main idea and summary?
What is textual evidence?
Willow Creek is very different from New York City. There are no tall skyscrapers in Willow Creek. All you can see are fields and sky. Instead of taxicab horns and fire truck sirens, it is so quiet at night that you can hear the crickets chirping. The MAIN text structure used in this paragraph is . . .
What is compare and contrast?
This text feature helps you to pay attention to important vocabulary words or concepts that can be found in the glossary?
What is bold print?
The army attempted to thwart the enemy with a new plan of attack before the enemy realized what was happening.
The word thwart means...
Which mean hinder or stop?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Brief written types of Non-Fiction works about a specific topic, meant to explain, persuade or inform.
What is an essay/article?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Explain the difference between a topic and a main idea.
A topic is a word or phrase that describes what the text is about.
The main idea is a complete thought that shows the most important idea in a text paragraph.
The music was blasting so loud, Marco thought his ears would burst. The stage was filled with bright blue laser beams and a shower of yellow and green paper streamers. All around him, the crowd was singing and dancing wildly. The MAIN text structure used in this paragraph is . . .
What is description?
Both are a picture/drawing that show something. A map shows where things are, and a diagram shows the parts of something.
What is alike and what is different about a map and a diagram?
John was meticulous in his work as an artist. He took great pains to be detailed, precise and thorough with all of his paintings.
Which context clue strategy did you use to determine the meaning?
Meticulous mean...
What are the synonyms, precise and thorough?
Which means careful?
The author presents a dilemma and then proposes possible solutions.
What is problem/solution?
Brad is sixteen years old and yesterday he had his first driving lesson. Brad backed the car up and turned the wheel quickly. He and his father felt the car go bump. Brad hit the mailbox.
Brad' s first driving lesson did not go well.
Joey lost his science book. He knew he would be in big trouble if he was unable to study for the final. What should he do? He thought for a few worried moments, and then decided to retrace his steps. He remembered putting the book in his backpack that morning. He had taken it out at school when his friend Kim asked to look something up. Now he remembered - Kim still had his book! The MAIN text structure used in this paragraph is . . .
What is problem and solution?
This text feature provides a list of topics found in the book.
What is the table of content?
FREE MONEY
FREE MONEY
about, after, afterward, as soon as, at the same time, before, during, finally, first, in the meantime later, last, meanwhile, next, next time, next year, prior to, second, next, soon, then, third
What are examples of transition words that show time?
I have a dog named Boots. I taught him lots of tricks. When I tell him to, Boots will sit or lie down. He can also waves his paw to greet people. When I say, "Dance, Boot," he will stand up on two legs and walk. I don't know many dogs that can do such amazing tricks.
Determine the main idea(s) of the text.
What is Boots is very smart?
What is Boot's owner is a great teacher/trainer?
Every spring, shortly after the tulips bloom, farmers in Holland go through the tulip fields and cut the blooms off the tulips. This seems strange, because it leaves a field full of green stems. However, it makes the colorful tulip blooms grow back even bigger and stronger later that spring. The MAIN text structure used in this paragraph is . . .
What is cause and effect?
This text feature support the caption.
What is an image?
“Unlike Jamaal’s room, which was immaculate, Jeffrey’s room was very messy.
Immaculate mean...
Which strategy did you use to determine the meaning?
Which means very clean?
What is finding the antonym to determine the meaning? (messy)
The way an author’s interests and beliefs influence the work.
What is an author's perspective?