Main Idea
What the story is mostly about.
What is the main idea?
What are context clues?
Use these to figure out unknown words.
This is the title above a section or paragraph
Heading
This names a person, place, or thing.
Noun
Every sentence starts with this kind of letter.
Capital letter
What are supporting details?
These help explain or support the main idea.
“Happy” and “sad” are examples of this.
Antonyms
This list at the beginning of a book helps you find pages.
Table of contents
This shows action in a sentence.
Verb
You put this at the end of a telling sentence.
Period.
What is a topic sentence?
Found in the first or last sentence of a paragraph.
In “He was famished after the game,” this means “famished.”
Hungry
These short lines under pictures tell more about the image.
Captions
“She runned fast.” Fix the mistake.
Ran
This tells the order things happen in a story.
Sequence
What is the author’s purpose?
This explains why the author wrote the passage.
These words around a tricky word give you hints.
Other words in the sentence
A labeled picture that shows how something works.
Diagram
This punctuation mark ends a question.
Question Mark
When you add more details to make writing better.
Revising
You can find the main idea by looking at the title and repeated words.
Strategy to figure out the main idea.
“She eats fruit like apples and bananas” uses this kind of clue.
Example clue
You find this list of new words at the back of a nonfiction book.
Glossary
This is the short way to say “I am.”
I'm
This is the first thing you do before writing.
Brainstorming.