Reading Skills
Stories are made up of four main components: character, setting, plot, and theme. Each of these parts gives you an overall understanding of the story.
Literary Elements
The arrangement of a story from beginning to end. You can use this information to summarize the plot.
Story Structure
A reference book that lists words alphabetically. It can be used to look up definitions, parts of speech, spelling, and other forms of the word.
Dictionary
A word that has the opposite meaning of another word.
Antonym
Show information in a way the reader can see. For example: tables/charts, bar graph, map, diagram, etc.
Graphic Sources
Something that can be proven true versus something that can't be proved.
Fact and Opinion
Asking good questions about important text information. This takes place before, during, and after reading.
Questioning
A book of synonyms. Sometimes it will also contain antonyms. Look through the synonyms to find one with the best meaning by using a dictionary.
Thesaurus
A word part added to the beginning of a base word to form a new word.
Prefixes
The order of events in the text. Listing the steps in a process.
Sequence
What happened and why something happened.
Cause and Effect
What you already know about a topic based on your reading and personal experience. Make connections to people, places, and things. Use before, during, and after reading to monitor comprehension.
Background Knowledge
A word that has almost the same meaning as another word.
Synonym
Words and sentences found around an unknown word that can help you understand the word's meaning.
Context Clues
To check our understanding of what we've read. To find out why we haven't understood what we've read and to adjust comprehension.
Monitor and Clarify
To look for similarities and differences in things.
Compare and Contrast
Use background knowledge with clues in the text to come up with our own ideas about what the author is trying to present.
Inferring
A word part added to the end of a base word to form a new word.
Suffixes
Words that are pronounced the same and have the same spelling, but their meanings are different.
Homonyms
We retell to check our understanding of what we've read. A brief statement - no more than a few sentences - and maintains logical order.
Summarize
A piece may be written to inform, entertain, persuade, or express a mood or feeling.
Author's Purpose
To create a picture or pictures in our mind as we read.
Visualize
Words that are spelled the same but have different meanings and sometimes different pronunciations.
Homographs
Words that are pronounced the same way but have different spellings and different meanings.
Homophones
To tell what might happen next in a story or article and is based on what has already happened. To set an intent to guide our reading.
Predict and Set Purpose