Reading Skills
Questioning your reading, thinking out loud, summarizing
What is active reading
This helps you find the meaning of a word or phrase
What are context clues
To figure out the main idea of an entire passage you need to focus especially on ...
What is the first paragraph and last paragraph?
Words that sound the same but have different meanings
What are homophones
A type of graph in which a circle is divided into sections to represent a portion of a whole
What is a pie chart
When the author doesn't state something but you have to read between the lines to figure it out
What is inferring
A word that has the same meaning
What is a synonym
To figure out the main idea of a paragraph, you need to focus on....
What is the first and last sentence
A relationship between actions or events in which one or more are the result of the other
What is cause and effect
A visual representation of a process chain of the sequence of actions
What is a flowchart
When the author states something directly it is ______stated
explicitly
A word that has the opposite meaning
What is an antonym
What is the writer's intent or purpose
What is compare and contrast
A chart that notes a range of time or dates
What is a timeline
Fiction, telling a story
What is a narrative
This is placed before the root word. Adding it to the beginning of a word changes it into another word.
What is a prefix
When the author implies something, it is stated...
What is implicitly
Using figures of speech to be more effective, examples are metaphors, similes, allusions, hyperbole, and personification
What is Figurative Language
A chart that uses comparisons between categories of data
What is a bar graph
Non fiction, facts, informational text
What is Expository
This is added to the end of a word to change the form of the word
What is a suffix
These are clues the author gives to help define a word
What are context clues
When you mark a question that you later want to return to, it is called...
BONUS...is it a good idea to flag a question....
flagging a question....NO