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Main Idea
Summarizing
Drawing Conclusions
Explaining Relationships
Bonus
100
Explains what a text is mostly about
What is a main idea?
100

A shorter version of a text or story.

What is a summary?

100
Another way to say "draw conclusion"
What is (make an) inference?
100
This type of text teaches you facts and ideas about our natural world
What is a scientific text?
100
Our focus statement in on-demand writing

What is a claim?

200
Supports the main idea
What are key details?
200
When you use your own words to explain or summarize information
What is paraphrasing?
200
You use these to make an inference
What are clues, facts, and what you know (prior experience)?
200
This type of text teaches you how something works or how to make, use, or do something
What is a technical text?
200
Something important that happens in a story or text
What is an event?
300

What the passage is about 

What is a topic?

300
Every summary should include this important part of the text
What is main idea (and key details)?
300
How the reader determines what the author is saying when it is not clearly stated in the text, using clues, facts, and their personal knowledge.
What is make an inference/ draw conclusions?
300
One thinking strategy to help the reader figure out how events are related. The reader should determine what happened and why it happened.
What is cause and effect?
300
The result of something and why it happened
What is cause and effect?
400

Figuring this out helps you understand the text better

What is a main idea?

400

Three sections of the outline to writing a summary. Similar to saying the "beginning, middle, and end."

What is the introduction, body, and conclusion?

400
what the reader uses from the text to make an inference
What are key details/ important information?
400
How things are connected.
What is a relationship?
400

What is the name for paragraphs or groups of lines in poems?

What is a stanza

500

What is the main idea of this story?

What do you need to bring on a picnic? First, you need to bring a basket. Put your food in the basket. It will be sunny at the picnic so bring sunscreen! Next, you need to bring a blanket to sit on. Now, you can go to the picnic. 

What is what to bring on a picnic?

500
The length of a summary compared to the original text
What is shorter?
500

You always support an inference with what from the text?

Evidence. Quotes from the text provide very strong evidence.

500
This type of text teaches you about important events in history
What is a historical text?
500

In fictional texts, this is a lesson about life that the author wants the reader to understand. 

What is theme?