Reading Skills
The location and time of a story
What is the setting?
The moral or lesson that an author is trying to teach.
What is theme?
This is a short version of the story that includes just the important details.
What is the summary?
What is wrong with this sentence?
He walked to the store and buy some milk.
The verb tenses don't agree - walked is past tense and buy is present tense.
What do you call a part of the book with titles and pages of where to find them?
What genre has made up characters but is based on true events that actually happened?
Historical Fiction
The ending of a story, or when a problem is solved...
What is the resolution?
What the story is mainly about?
Central or Main idea
When the story is told from the perspective of the narrator, using words like "I" or "me"
What is first person?
To describe how things are alike and how they are different
What is compare and contrast?
A book about a person written by someone else.
biography
What is the following text structure?
Summer is my favorite time. I love going to the mountains and the beach. Both are great places to get away. You can swim, surf, fish, and play in the sand at the beach. When you go to the mountains, you can hike, fish, rock climb, and canoe. Either place would make a wonderful vacation.
compare and contrast
The sentence "Cars is the best movie ever" is an example of
What is opinion?