Reading Skills
The most important idea in a passage.
Main Idea
The author’s reason for writing (PIE: persuade, inform, entertain)
Author’s Purpose
A comparison using 'like' or 'as'
Simile
Whole numbers and their opposites.
Integers
The distance around a shape.
Perimeter
Details that support or explain the main idea.
Supporting Ideas.
The way a text is organized (cause/effect, compare/contrast, etc.)
Text Structure
A comparison without using 'like' or 'as'
Metaphor
A number’s distance from zero.
Absolute Value
The space inside a flat shape.
Area
A guess you make using clues from the text + what you know
Inference
The perspective from which a story is told.
Point of View
Giving human qualities to something nonhuman.
Personification
A letter that stands for an unknown number.
Variable
The space inside a 3D shape.
Volume
he message, lesson, or moral of a story.
Theme
The author’s attitude toward the subject.
Tone
An extreme exaggeration
Hyperbole
A math statement with an equal sign
Equation
A grid made of an x-axis and y-axis.
Coordinate Plane
The problem in a story (internal or external).
Conflict
The feeling or atmosphere the reader gets....
Mood
A phrase that means something different than the words themselves.
Idiom
Numbers you multiply together to get a product.
Factors
A point named with (x, y).
Ordered Pair