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Reading Skills- A
Reading Skills B
Misc.
Text Structures in Informational Texts
Point of View
100
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?
100
A short retell of a passage that includes the main idea and key details.
What is summary?
100
This genre includes stories, drama and poetry?
What is fiction?
100
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?
100
The narrator is a character in the text. Key words are I, me, and my.
What is 1st person point of view?
200
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?
200
The reason why a writer write a text, such as to 

Persuade, Inform, Entertain. 


What is author's purpose?
200
What makes a complete paragraph? 
What is a topic sentence, details, concluding sentence. 
200
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?
200
The narrator is NOT a character in the story. Key words are he, she, they,
What is 3rd person point of view?
300
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?
300
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?
300
What does R.A.P.P. Stand for? 
What is restate, answer, prove, prove. 
300
The author explains and issue or challenge and then describes how to resolve the issue?
What is problem and solution?
300
The narrator speaks directly to the reader. A key word is you.
What is 2nd person point of view?
400
To describe a character based on what they say and how they act is describing their? 
What is character trait? 
400
When a reader does not know what a word means, they can use this tool to look up its meaning.
What is using a dictionary?
400
The bullet marks on the extended response question  should be created into what? 
What is a paragraph? 
400
The author organizes the text by explaining what happened and why it happened.
What is cause and effect?
400
In this point of view the narrator expresses more feelings and emotions?
What is 1st person point of view?
500
Another way to ask the reader what the theme of a story is? 
What is central message, moral of the story, or lesson learned. 
500
When a reader uses their background knowledge and context clues, what are they doing? 
What is a inference?
500
What genre was the book Earthquakes? 
What is non-fiction? 
500
When an author explains the DIFFERENCES between two things.
What is contrast?
500
When the narrator knows how ALL the characters feel and think.
What is 3rd person omniscient.