Terms 1
What is a concept or idea that is central to a text or section of a text?
Central Idea
What does it mean to tell or write about an event or experience?
Recount
This means where a story takes place
Setting
Making something happen/ the result
Cause/ Effect
to explain or write about something so that it can be easily visualized.
Describe
What does it mean to support an idea or opinion by referring to sources (texts, media, images, etc.)?
Cite
What does it mean to make a brief statement that includes the main points about a topic, text, or idea?
Summarize
How the character looks and acts
Character traits
Compare
to recognize or indicate who or what someone or something is.
Identify
What is a statement as part of an argument that can be supported with evidence?
What are elements of a text that are not included in the main text but add to the reader’s understanding?
Text Features
What happens in the story
Plot
To show things are different
Contrast
to grow or expand by adding detail to writing or speech.
Develop
What is Facts, figures, details, quotations, or other sources of data and information that provide support for claims or an analysis and that can be evaluated by others?
Evidence
What are some examples of text features?
the title, index, headings and subheadings, illustrations, pictures, charts, captions, etc.
Main problem in the story
Conflict
What the author is trying to convince the reader to see and understand about their writing
Purpose
to guess what will happen in the future; to forecast.
Predict
What is a conclusion or understanding, generally not directly stated by the author or writer, reached on the basis of evidence, logic, and/or reasoning?
Inference
What is a message or moral of a text?
Theme
A main event during the story when the problem in the story must be solved
Climax
Order in which story takes place
Sequence
to study carefully or in detail.
Analyze