What is combining what you already know with information from the passage?
100
The main heading of a passage that gives a clue about the main idea.
What is the title?
100
The way that stories are told: from beginning to middle to end.
What is chronological order?
100
"I was happy as a clam when I heard we were getting a snow day!"
What is a simile?
100
A story might take place on a cold, rainy day to show this kind of mood.
What is sad or gloomy, etc.?
200
Little Johnny's older brother plays football. Little Johnny really admires his older brother. You can infer this will happen when Little Johnny is old enough to go out for sports.
What is Little Johnny will try out for the football team?
200
Minor headings within a passage that give clues to the supporting details.
What are subtitles?
200
Key words that indicate this type of pattern include first, second, then, next, and finally.
What is sequence (or process) order?
200
Holly was over the moon about her 450 score on the SOL.
What is hyperbole?
200
The sense that the following imagery appeals to: "The sun washed me in its warm glow and felt as good as sinking into a steaming bath."
What is touch?
300
Bud spends the entire novel searching for his father. At the end of the novel, he finds his mother's father instead. You can infer that Bud will do this next.
What is stay with his grandfather?
300
Underlining, bold-face, and italics often indicate them.
What are key words?
300
This organizational pattern is easy to confuse with others; it presents the facts only and the events that are a direct result of them.
What is cause/effect?
300
The sunny weather begged me to come outside and play.
What is personification?
300
The phrase “packed to the brim” creates an image of being this.
What is completely full?
400
Edward Lear's limericks are silly and nonsensical. We can therefore infer that Edward Lear had a good sense of this.
What is sense of humor?
400
Any type of picture, diagram, illustration, chart, timeline, map, etc.
What is a graphic?
400
The organizational pattern in which an author describes an issue, gives an opinion about it, and offers ways to fix the issue.
What is problem/solution?
400
Little Johnny's heart was a drum as he stepped out on the field for the final game of the season.
What is metaphor?
400
Mood and tone show this quality of the author and/or character(s).
What is attitude?
500
Ji li Jiang's home was attacked by the Red Guards when she was a little girl. Later she moved to the United States. We can infer her feelings about living in Communist China were these.
What are sad and angry?
500
The best way to understand the main idea and supporting details of a passage.
What is reading the whole passage word-for-word?
500
The authors describes the way in which two or more things are alike and how they are different.
What is compare/contrast?
500
Sara circled every correct answer on the test.
What is alliteration?
500
This is the best way to determine the tone of a passage.
What is reading the entire passage for context clues.