ELA Reading Skills
In order to find the central idea of a passage, you first must look here. (Name all three to pass, four to gain an extra 100 points.)
What is the first sentence, last sentence, and title. *BONUS: ____________________
This is when the meaning is stated to help you determine a word's meaning.
What is definition?
A good reader will always be doing this while reading to monitor their comprehension.
What is asking questions?
This root has a meaning of sound.
What is son-?
This is the sequence of events in a story.
What is plot?
These are two things you need to make an inference.
What is background knowledge and information from the text?
A word that is given with a similar meaning to help you determine a word's meaning.
What is a synonym?
You've read a multi-paragraph passage and need to answer a question, but you don't quite remember all the details. You do this to make sure you have the best answer.
What is go back and reread?
When the suffix -ist is added to a word, it becomes this part of speech.
What is a noun?
An author uses this to keep a story moving and to understand the character's thoughts and actions.
What is a dialogue?
Analyzing how a character has changed in a story can lead you to...
What is the theme?
The text does not directly state the meaning so you would need to make this using context clues.
When you identify similarities and differences between two or more concepts, you are...
The prefix in monotone means...
What is one/singular?
This is looked at to determine a character's development.
An author will add specific words to create this and feeling in a passage.
What is tone?
You don't know a word's meaning, but the text states a specific scenario or idea to help you. This is a(n)...
What is an example?
"This" means to make a picture in your head. "This" helps to understand and remember a story because with focus, you can recall more details about a story that will carry on throughout the page, chapter, or book.
What is visualize?
The prefix in foreshadow means...
What is before?
This occurs in a story directly after the inciting incident.
What is the rising action?
"While at the store, I found an antique for my collection." Find the word with a connotative meaning and determine its connotation.
What is a antique and positive connotation?
Mr. Fry is an affable principal. He knows everybody's name and can always help if you have a problem. Define affable.
What is friendly, easy to talk to, nice?
Asking yourself "What are examples of details that the author didn't need to include?" is an example of what reading strategy?
What is determining importance?
Provide the literal definition for hypothermia.
What is below, heat, condition of?
In the Three Little Pigs, when the wolf sneaks down the chimney of the brick house, this part of the story's....
What is climax?