Main Idea and Supporting Details
A reader makes an inference by using WHAT from the text to point out something not in the text.
What is details?
The biggest animal on land is an elephant? Is this a fact or an opinion.
What is a fact?
The universal message (otherwise known also as the central idea) of a literary text
What is the theme?
This text structure uses these signal words: first, second, third, fourth, fifth, next, last, finally, after, then, dates and time.
What is sequence/chronological?
This artist is a well-known rapper around the world for an array of different songs, and he has also been featured in various pop-culture films. He studied music management at Georgia State University in 1998.
Who is Ludacris?
In fiction, this is used to describe a setting or where the story is taking place.
What is details?
You should always study in the morning. This is an example of a fact or opinion.
What is opinion?
The events in a story that unfolds is known as what?
What is the plot?
What are two signal words for description (text structure or the way the text is organized)?
What are:
characteristics,
for example,
to show,
including, etc?
Some countries, such as Japan, or parts of a country, like California in the United States, have a lot of earthquakes. In these places it is a good practice to build houses and other buildings so they will not collapse when there is an earthquake. This is called seismic design or "earthquake-proofing". How is the text structured?
The above is an Ereading Example
What is problem and solution?
Explicit details or directly stated details can give you this information that might not be as obvious.
What is implicit (info that is not directly stated)?
Kobe Bryant was the greatest basket ball player. Is a fact or an opinion.
What is opinion
A short account ( a paragraph) that includes the main idea and the key or major details in a story is known as what?
What is a summary?
This text structure typically uses these signal words in the passages: therefore, since, because, due to, as a result of, if
What is cause and effect?
A woman tries a new dish on the menu at a new restaurant and makes a disgusted face on her first bite. This is an example of what?
What is inference?
True or False: an inference is not directly stated.
What is true?
The biggest animal in the sea or in the world is a blue whale? Is this a fact or an opinion?
What is a fact?
A summary that is objective does not contain what?
What is an opinion?
This link ideas together, show relationships, and indicate transitions from one idea to the next. Each text structure is associated with different signal words
What is signal words?
True or false. As a reader, you can use quotations to make inferences?
What is true?
Make sure when you're reading informational text you identify two important details.
What is definitions and examples?
It is wrong for people under 21 to drink in New York State. Is this an opinion or a fact?
What is a fact. It's against the NY State law for anyone to drink under the age of 21.
A primary source can include who or what? Name two.
What is:
1. a letter/a transcribed speech from a key figure in a historical event;
2. diary of an individual who lived through an event;
3. an old newspaper or a government document; or
4. scientific information/data from experiments.
What are some signal words writer's used for problem and solution passages?
What are:
therefore,
so that,
since,
consequently, etc?
A set of words taken directly from a text and is set off with quotation marks is what?
What is quotations?