Stating the main points of a passage in a shorter form.
What is summarizing?
100
To give knowledge without bias and remain neutral.
What is to inform your readers?
100
A punch to the eye resulted in a black eye.
What is cause and effect?
100
Facts, statements or examples that helps us understand the main idea.
What are relevant details? OR
What are important details?
100
Experiences or beliefs that influence the way an author writes.
What is an author's point of view?
200
Reaching or (guessing) a conclusion based on known facts or evidence.
What is inferring?
200
To provide humor and amusement. Often the purpose of poetry and literary works.
What is to entertain your readers?
200
One describes how things are alike and the other shows how they are different.
What is compare and contrast?
200
He studied law at Harvard University and graduated at the top of his class. He has been a practicing human rights attorney for the past twenty years. His knowledge on the subject is highly valued.
What are expert opinions?
200
Expressed through the words and details that he/she selects.
Another description for the tone of a story.
What is author's attitude?
300
Restating text or a passage in your own words.
What is paraphrasing?
300
To convince someone to think a certain way. Bias is present.
What is to persuade your readers? OR
What is persuasive text?
300
The attitude of a writer towards a subject or audience. (Examples include:formal, informal, serious, comic, sarcastic, sad, cheerful, etc.)
What is the definition of tone in written work? OR
What is tone?
300
Personal participation or background knowledge that affords you the right to claim you have this.
What is experience?
300
Gathering clues from the text, analyzing, testing then putting everything together to come up with a result.
What is drawing conclusions and making inferences?
400
Facts, statements or examples that helps us understand the main idea.
What is identifying relevant details? OR
What is supporting evidence?
400
To break information down and make the text clear and understandable.
What is to explain to your readers? OR
What is expository text?
400
The order in which two or more things occur involving the plot of a story.
What is sequence of events?
400
There are more black males incarcerated than are enrolled in Florida colleges. (example)
100% of Ms. Jackson students passed the FCAT 2.0 assessment with a score of 300 or better on the Spring administration of the assessment. (example)
What are facts/statistics?
400
Critical reading to disclose what point or claim is made, how is the claim is backed up with evidence such as statistics, logical development of ideas, and explaining how something works. A conclusion supports the the thesis or topic sentence.