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Figurative Language
Main Idea
Inference
Vocabulary
Summarizing
100
The words " go the way of the dinosaurs" means...
What is to " become extinct"
100
This tells what the story is about...
What is the main idea?
100
THis is the strategy you use if you have to read between the lines to determine your answer....
What is inferencing?
100
To find how things are different.
What is contrast?
100
This is what a summary should consist of...
What is one sentence that states the main idea and two important facts.
200
The words were "off like a shot" means...
What is "moving very quickly"?
200
This is a lesson that is learned...
What is a moral?
200
This involves looking at the sentence after it to find out the meaning of difficult words...
What is context clues?
200
A type of story (example fiction, nonfiction,poetry,mystery)
What is genre?
200
This is the kind of map used to help summarize a story.
What is a tree map?
300
You can tell that I "stumbled across that" means
What is "found by accident?"
300
This word describes how the story makes you feel.
What is mood?
300
To use evidence to find an answer
What is identify?
300
This is the most important word or phrase in the sentence.
What is key word?
300
This involves telling a summary in your own words.
What is paraphrasing.
400
The words " that cat's out of the bag" mean....
What is " a secret is known"
400
Use these to tell what is going to happen...
What is context clues?
400
This involves reading to find a specific word or detail...
What is scan or skim?
400
This is a thinking map used to "organize information"
What is graphic organizer?
400
This is how many lines a summary should consist of.
What is no more than five?
500
The expression "once in a blue moon" means...
What is "not happening often"
500
A main idea sentence has two parts called the _______ and the __________.
What are the topic and controlling idea.
500
To make a guess based on facts given.
What is infer?
500
This is the order of events.
What is sequencing?
500
This is what summarizing a story helps the reader to do.
What is comprehend?