Reading Skills Pt 1
What skill takes two pieces of writing and tells how they are similar and different.
Compare and Contrast.
What is the name of the where and when a story takes place?
Setting
What are transition words? What do they do?
Words that connect ideas. Examples are first, next, last, furthermore, although, ect
What are nouns? Verbs?
Verbs are actions
What does it mean to inform?
To teach the reader about something.
What do you call the events in a story?
The Plot
What do we call the lesson the author wants us to learn from the character's experiences?
Theme
What do you look for when you edit your passage?
Missing words, punctuation, or capitals. Mistakes in the writing.
When do we use quotation marks? Where do they go?
What do you call chunks of writing in a poem.
Stanzas
When we take an educated guess about something the author hinted at but did not say.
What do you call the most important thing the author wants us to learn or know about their writing?
The main idea or central idea
What do we look for when revising our work?
When do you use an apostrophy? 2 ways!
When you are showing ownership or in a contraction.
What does development mean?
How something is created or changes in a passage.
What is a summary?
When you tell the most important events in order.
Sue wanted to play her video game, but she had to do her homework first. This made her frustrated.
These two sentences show us an important part of STORY. Which part?
Oops there is a problem, the conflict.
What 3 parts should an essay have?
introduction, body, and conclusion.
Although she did not want to eat,
What type of clause is the example above?
dependent
What does analyze mean?
To study something closely to understand.
What do we call words that describe things like how something feels, looks, smells, or sounds. (The academic name)
Sensory Details
What are the 4 things we have to notice about characters to understand the story?
Character Motivation, Character Perspective, Character Traits, and Character Feeling.
When we write an opinion we need to make sure we use 2 things to make our writing persuasive?
Reasons and Facts
What is a complex sentence?
A sentence that has a independent and dependant clause.
Facts on many different topics, like animals, history, or science.