Mainly Ideal
The central message or topic of a written text
What is the main idea?
If you remove this type of info from a paragraph, the Main Idea will collapse because it no longer has evidence to support it.
What is a key detail?
The 5 types of Text Structures are ________________
What is:
Problem/Solution
Cause and Effect
Compare/Contrast
Sequence
Description
This type of question has an answer that is directly in the text. You can point to the sentence that contains the answer.
What is an explicit question?
The three clues for identifying unknown words.
What are:
The Definition Clue
The Description Clue
The Synonym Clue
Usually supporting the main idea, these can be found within a text if you read carefully.
What are key details?
This is the term for a piece of information that is interesting to read but is not necessary to understand the central message of a text.
What is fluff?
Words like "First," "Next," and "Finally" are the biggest clues for this structure.
What is "Sequence"?
To make a perfect inference, you need to combine clues in a text with this.
What is schema?
(Background Knowledge)
In the sentence, "The journey was arduous, a grueling trip that exhausted the men," the word that helps us understand arduous is ___________
Bonus: Arduous most likely means _____________
What is grueling?
Bonus: What is extremely difficult and tiring?
True or False: The main idea is something that can always be found in the first sentence of a passage.
What is False? Main ideas can be covered at any point in a text! Beginning, middle, or end.
This means to show your thinking while reading a text. Can often appear in the form of circling, underlining, highlighting, or taking notes and drawing arrows.
What is annotating?
If an author wanted to convince you ride a bike to school instead of driving, they would use this structure to show the benefits of one over the other.
What is Compare/Contrast?
After you make an inference, you must provide this to show your "detective work" is logical.
What is evidence? Annotations is also acceptable.
Words may have multiple meanings. To pick the right one, you must look at the word's ______ in the story.
What is context?
In a passage about the Nez Perce, the main idea focused on their "struggle for freedom" supported by key details. This is different from the "number of miles they walked." This is because the miles walked is considered ______.
What is fluff?
Look at these two details about the Battle of Gettysburg:
A) Over 50,000 soldiers were injured or killed.
B) The Union victory stopped the Confederate invasion of the North.
The key detail is ____________
What is B
True or False: A single multi-paragraph text can actually use more than one text structure.
What is true?
This is a common misconception. A single text can do more than one thing. Sometimes an author can describe while also showing a sequence!
True or False: "Chief Joseph was sad when he surrendered" is explicit if the text says "Chief Joseph wept as he handed over his rifle."
What is False? We can INFER that he was sad, but it isn't explicitly stated in the text.
When reading a sentence, and a word is described in the context of the passage, that most likely would be considered and example of the ________ clue.
What is the description clue?
Main Idea: Despite their courageous 1,100-mile flight to find freedom, this group of people faced a tragic defeat as they were forced to surrender their ancestral land and their way of life to others.
Bonus: This is the main idea of _________
What is/are the Nez Perce?
Bonus: What is Thunder Rolling in the Mountains?
If you were reading a story about the Nez Perce, and at some point the author mentions "The tribe traveled 1,170 miles", a specific meausrement like this usually can be considered___________
What is Fluff?
A key detail is usually a broader, general statement that can be applied to a main idea. Something like "The Nez Perce traveled after being forecfully removed from their homeland."
A travel brochure that uses lots of adjectives to tell you what the Amazon Rainforest looks, smells, and feels like is using this structure.
What is Description?
Scenario: A text says: "The Union telegraph lines were cut by Confederate spies just hours before the battle began."
We can infer that during the battle, the union ______________
What is: They probably had trouble communicating with their troops during the battle.
Look at this sentence: "The Buffalo Soldiers were resilient; even when they were given broken tools and old horses, they never stopped working." What context clue in the sentence helps you understand the potential meaning of the word resilient.
What is "never stopped working"?