Reading Skills Part I
This term is an event that makes another event happen.
Cause
biography
These are words formed by joining two other words and using an apostrophe to show where letters have been left out.
contractions
The most important idea in the reading
Main Idea
apostrophe
How people, places, or things are different
Contrast
These texts are designed to persuade people to accept certain ideas or buy certain products
brochures and advertisements
This is a word that takes the place of a noun.
Pronoun
Author's typically write to persuade, to inform, or to ____________
entertain
These are used to help break up sentences to make them easier to read
commas
These appear in a paragraph and support the main idea.
details
These are designed to gather and organize information from employees, citizens, and consumers.
forms
This tells us who or what a sentence is about.
subject
This tells where and when the action of a passage takes place
setting
You should use this punctuation to end a statement
period
the order in which things happen are called the _______
sequence of events
documents
Name three of the seven coordinating conjunctions
For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So
You apply knowledge you already have to a situation in the passage to figure out the meaning, you are making an _______
inference
You should use this punctuation to end a question.
question mark
synthesizing
Name three of the six question words.
Who, what, when, where, why, and how
To put the words in your sentence in a similar form is called
parallelism
What results from a cause is the _______
effect
This is the punctuation used to show a strong emotion
exclamation point