Theme
This is the overarching lesson the author wants the reader to understand.
What is theme?
This part of speech is represented in bold...
She assisted the teacher in handing back paper.
What is a verb?
This word means to feel sympathy for the suffering of others; pity.
What is compassion?
Synonyms, Antonyms, Definition,Example, Inferences
These are examples of strategies for defining words using the information in the sentence or text.
Context Clues
Your main idea needs these to support it in a text.
Key Details
This is the TOPIC for the following poem.
Friendship is
No fragile human bond.
Friendship is
A strong oneness-bridge.
What is friendship?
This is the word that comes before a pronoun in the sentence.
What is an antecedent?
This word means to make up for or repay someone for services.
What is compensation?
If you don't curtail your spending, you'll be broke in no time at all!
This word is a synonym of "curtail"?
What is limit?
This one likely place in the paragraph you can look to find the main idea.
What is the first or second sentence?
This is the theme of this poem:
Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you gave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from the sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.
by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
What is "Home is a comfort in death?"
This is the correct pronoun for the antecedent in the following sentence.
Everyone wants for people to love (them/him).
What is him?
This word means to draw together or to reduce in size.
What is contract?
The context clues define the bold word as this...
"The poem was confusing and was too ambiguous to determine a clear meaning for."
Unclear or open to interpretation.
This is the main idea for the following text.
A penny for your thoughts? If it’s a 1943 copper penny, it could be worth as much as fifty thousand dollars. In 1943, most pennies were made out of steel since copper was needed for World War II, so the 1943 copper penny is ultra-rare. Another rarity is the 1955 double die penny. These pennies were mistakenly double stamped, so they have overlapping dates and letters. If it’s uncirculated, it’d easily fetch $25,000 at an auction. Now that’s a pretty penny!
What is "an explanation of rare and expensive pennies"?
One of THIS story's themes is, "Don't let technology replace parenting".
What is "The Veldt"?
The bold words are examples of these...
She ate the magnificently flavored macarons with utter relish, thinking longingly about her trip to France.
What are adverbs?
This word means to speak against or to say the opposite of.
What is contradict?
Wherever he goes, the esteemed Dr. Sanchez is applauded for his life saving research.
Write a context clue the bold word.
What is applauded?
These key details support the main idea for the following passage.
"This passage describes the barter system and some of its shortcomings."
(1)It's hard to imagine what things were like before there was money, but such a time did exist. (2)During these times people exchanged goods using the barter system. (3)The word barter means to trade. (4)People using the barter system traded things instead of buying and selling them. (5)So if you were a rice farmer, you would trade your rice with many people to get all the things that you wanted or needed. (6)Unfortunately, the people from whom you needed things might not want your rice. (7)Isn't it nice to just go to the store and buy candy instead of having to trade rice for it?
What are sentences 4,5,6?
This is the common TOPIC for the following movies...
"The Hate U Give"
"When They See Us"
"BlacKKKlansman"
What is prejudice?
These words are bold in the following sentence...
The lobster jumped out of the frying pan and into the fire.
What are prepositions?
This word means to grow or increase rapidly; flourish.
What is burgeon?
Fortunately, the dizzy spell was transient. He was able to continue playing within seconds and had no trouble winning the match.
This is the definition for transient.
This is the main idea for the following passage.
As young Americans mature into adults, they are tempted by the allure of easy credit. Credit card companies attempt to ensnare young people by giving away "free" headphones or sports towels in return for completing credit applications. Many of these young people go on to accumulate debt through undisciplined spending. They pay much more than the original loan because they are charged a high rate of interest and it takes them years to repay their debts. It is best to avoid this debt prison altogether.
Young people can become burdened with dept.