Reading Skills 1
Something that can be proven true
What is fact
How someone thinks or feels
What is an opinion
An action word
What is a verb
The words and sentences around an unknown word that help you determine the word meaning.
What are context clues.
The reason an author writes
What is author's purpose
To tell how two or more things are alike
What is compare
To tell how two or more things are different.
What is contrast
A reference book that contains definitions of words
What is a dictionary
Words that mean the same
What is a synonym
The three reasons an author writes.
What is to persuade, inform, or entertain.
The lesson of a fictional story
What is theme
The order in which things happen in a story.
What is sequence
The ways an author shows a character's personality.
What is characterization
Words that are opposite
What is antonym
What a passage is mostly about.
What is the main idea.
Tells why something happened.
What is cause
Tells what happened as a result of the cause
What is effect
A book that is written about someone else's life story.
What is biography
A person, place, thing, or idea
What is a noun
When and where a story takes place
What is the setting
Important events that happen at the beginning, middle, and end of a fictional story
What is plot
To make an educated guess based on clues and background knowledge.
What is an inference.
A book that someone writes about their own life
What is autobiography
A describing word
What is an adjective
A person or animal that is in a story
What is character