Reading Skills- A
What the story is mostly about. You need to think about the whole passage, not just one part to figure this out
What is main idea? or What is the central idea?
A short retell of a passage that includes the main idea and key details.
What is summary?
This genre includes stories, drama and poetry?
What is fiction?
The author organizes the text by telling events or steps in the order in which they happen. Key words are frist, next, then and finally.
What is sequence?
The narrator is a character in the text. Key words are I, me, and my.
What is 1st person point of view?
The message or lesson the author conveys in the story. You need to think about what the author is trying to teach you about life.
What is theme?
The reason why a writer write a text, such as to entertain, inform and persuade.
What is author's purpose?
This type of story has been passed down from generation to generation and explains why something happens in nature
What is a legend/myth?
The author organizes the text by showing how two or more things are different and how they are the same. Key words are both, however, alike, but.
What is compare and contrast?
The narrator is NOT a character in the story. Key words are he, she, they,
What is 3rd person point of view?
This is an idea that is not explicitly stated in the text. You need to put together clues from the text and what you know to figure it out.
What is inference?
When a reader reads the sentences before and after a word they do not know in order to figure out what it means.
What are context clues?
This text is a short fictional story that features animals that talk and usually includes a morale.
What is a fable?
The author explains and issue or challenge and then describes how to resolve the issue?
What is problem and solution?
The narrator speaks directly to the reader. A key word is you.
What is 2nd person point of view?
How is a poem organized?
What is a stanza?
When a reader does not know what a word means, they can use this tool to look up its meaning. BONUS for an extra 100 points: They can us this tool to find a synonym for the word they don't know.
What is using a dictionary?
This is an informational text that is written in 2nd person and tells you how to complete or do something?
What is a technical text?
The author organizes the text by explaining what happened and why it happened.
What is cause and effect?
In this point of view the narrator expresses more feelings and emotions?
What is 1st person point of view?
What is X on the ones that do not make sense, 0 on the ones that could be the answer.
What should you always do first before beginning to read a passage?
What is read the directions.
A fictional or made up story based upon real events that happened in the past.
What is historical fiction?
When an author explains the DIFFERENCES between two things.
What is contrast?
When the narrator knows how ALL the characters feel and think.
What is 3rd person omniscient.