Reading Informational
This is the big idea or the most important point an author wants you to understand from a paragraph or article. What is it called?
What is the central idea?
This is the person telling the story or poem. Sometimes it's a character, and sometimes it's someone outside the story.
What is the narrator or speaker?
This is a brief retelling of the most important ideas from a text, without extra details or opinions. What is it called?
What is a summary?
This is the meaning of a word based on how it is used in a sentence, like understanding "run" in "I run to the store" versus "He runs a business." What is this called?
What is context clues?
These are the characters, setting, plot, conflict, and resolution that make up a story. What are they called?
What are story elements?
These tools in nonfiction texts, like bold words, headings, and captions, help you find and understand information quickly. What are they?
What are text features?
Words in a fun, creative way that are different from their literal meaning
What is figurative language?
You read the sentence: “The classroom was a zoo.” What type of figurative language is this an example of?
What is a metaphor?
If you don’t know the meaning of a word in an article, you can look at the words and sentences around it. What is this called?
What is using context clues?
These details are important parts of the story that help you understand the central idea or theme, such as key actions or events. What are they called?
What are key details?
If an author is writing to give facts or explain how something works, what is the author's purpose?
What is to inform?
When a poet gives human qualities to something nonhuman, like saying “the wind whispered,” what is that called?
What is personification?
You read two articles about space travel. One gives facts, and the other tells a story. What strategy helps you understand how they are different?
What is comparing and contrasting?
This is a word that has the same or nearly the same meaning as another word. For example, "happy" and "joyful."
What is a synonym?
The sentence, "Your room looks like a pig pen!", is an example of this type of figurative language
What is simile?
The way information is organized in a text
What is text structure?
An exaggeration like "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!"
What is a hyperbole?
Use a character's words, actions, and motivations to describing a character.
What is character traits?
This is a word that means the opposite of another word. For example, "hot" and "cold."
What is an antonymn?
When an author expresses their personal feelings or opinions about a topic, it reflects their point of view. What is this called?
What is author's perspective?
You read a science article that explains how photosynthesis works, step by step. What structure is being used?
What is sequence?
This is the message or big idea the author wants you to learn from the story, like “Be kind” or “Never give up.” What is it called?
What is a theme?
A diary from a Civil War soldier is a primary source. A textbook about the Civil War is a secondary source. What is the main difference between the two?
What is a primary source gives firsthand information, and a secondary source explains or analyzes it?
If you don’t know a word’s meaning, you can break it apart to understand the meaning of its parts. For example, "unhappiness" can be broken into "un-" (not) and "happiness" (the state of being happy). What is this called?
While reading, using clues from the text combined with background knowledge to form a conclusion
What is making an inference?