Learn Your Lesson
This is the lesson of a fable.
What is a moral?
What are context clues?
Mr. Watson's residence is in this classroom.
What is Room 106?
This is the term for making an educated guess about what you're reading.
What is an inference?
What is William?
This is the term for the lesson an author shares through their writing.
What is Theme?
This is a type of clue where the author uses a different word that means the same thing as the mystery word.
What is a synonym clue?
This person is the 6th grade counselor for next year.
Who is Ms. Sabul?
Inferencing combines two elements: What the readers sees in the text and...
What is background knowledge?
(Or, what you already know)
Arsene Lupin's father is this, which explains all of the makeup and disguises.
What is a circus performer?
Themes are rarely stated this way:
(Not meaning full of bad words...)
What is explicitly?
When the author makes the reader guess what a word means based on the text and their own knowledge, readers are using this type of context clue.
What is an inference clue?
6th graders will work with this administrator primarily next year.
Who is Mr. Stevens?
Just because your inference is wrong doesn't mean it was this.
What is a bad inference?
"Leopold, put her down now!" was shouted to whom?
Who is Irene's father?
"War", "Love", "Responsibility", etc., are not themes, but rather this term, meaning what the story is about.
What is Topic?
Context clues that use antonyms show how the mystery word is this compared to another word.
What is opposite?
It's a one-direction hallway that leads to food and the way home for walkers and car-riders (who doesn't love that?)
What is the Gold Hallway?
Inferencing can help readers think about this in their story.
What is a change in a character?
What is what comes next in the story?
He's the Adler family butler.
Who is Mr. Horatio Nelson?
Since authors rarely tell you what the theme is outright, readers must make this: the Reading term for what Science calls a "hypothesis".
What is an inference?
When the author tells the reader what the word means, they've given this type of context clue.
What is a definition clue?
You may see Mr. Watson when you get to this point in life.
What is 8th grade?
"How did you come up with that?" is asking a reader to provide this, showing what the author said that made them arrive at their guess.
What is Text Evidence?
The amateur sleuths are wondering about this mysterious character's possible involvement in the theft of Lady Martigny's necklace, as well as the dead man on the beach.
Who is The Rooftop Thief?