Context Clues
Inference
Main Idea
Annotating a Passage
Miscellaneous
100
Information for the passage that proves your answer.
What is text evidence?
100
Information that is not directly stated in a passage.
What is an inference?
100
Important information that tells more about the overall idea of paragraph or a passage.
What is a main idea?
100
The first thing you do when you get a passage.
What is circling the title?
100
Comparing two different things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
200
Information that means the same as the unknown(given) word.
What is a synonym context clue?
200
Prior Knowledge
What is information that I previously know about a topic (passage)?
200
Who or what the passage is about.
What is a topic?
200
After you read the title.
What is making a prediction?
200
An exaggerated statement not to be taken literally.
What is hyperbole?
300
A word that means the opposite of the unknown (given) word.
What is an antonym context clue?
300
Context Clues
What is text evidence?
300
What you learn about a topic.
What is a controlling idea?
300
Why is it important to write a main idea after each paragraph?
What is stopping to think about why that paragraph is important?
300
Words that imitate the natural sounds of a thing.
What is onomatopoeia?
400
It is means stop the meaning is directly stated in the passage.
What is a direct definition context clue?
400
Information that can be proven.
What is a true statement?
400
What is the writer trying to tell you about the topic?
What is a question you ask yourself when you are trying to figure out the main idea?
400
An educated guess.
What is a prediction?
400
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object is given human characteristics.
What is personification?
500
Synonym, Antonym, and Direct Definition
What are the three context clues?
500
Information that is not in the passage.
What is a false statement?
500
Topic + Controlling Idea = Main Idea Sentence
What is the main idea sentence formula?
500
A sudden and disturbing vivid memory of an event in the past.
What is a flashback?
500
A part of the plot diagram that is often missed.
What is conflict?
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