The author's attitude toward the subject and audience. Readers must understand the attitude of the author toward the subject to understand the ______of a story.
What is Tone?
100
The subject of most or all of the sentences in a paragraph.
What is the topic.
100
The core of the author's need to create the story in the first place. The central belief, idea, or message of the whole writing.
What is the central message?
100
The methods of logically organizing details in writing.
What are patterns of organization?
100
Text to Text, Text to Self, Text to World
What are the connections to text?
200
How we connect to information when we read to something else we have encountered in other texts, our lives, or the world.
What are connections to text?
200
Connecting the ideas presented and what you already know.
What is the purpose of reading?
200
A sentence or two that tells the reader the subject of the writing.
What is a thesis statement?
200
Items listed in order of occurrence or time.
What is chronological order?
200
playful, serious, ironic, condescending
What are tonal words?
300
Words surrounding another word that help define a word and give meaning to the word.
What are context clues?
300
To entertain, to inform, or to persuade
What is the purpose of writing?
300
The specifically stated major point of the paragraph, essay, or other writing. The part of a paragraph tells the topic of the paragraph.
What is the stated main idea?
300
The organization items in order of location.
What is space (spacial) order?
300
and, first, above, below, finally, for example, to begin, continuing with, and foremost.
What are transitional words?
400
The examination of the components of the subject. The careful study of something to determine or define components, parts, meaning, etc.
What is analysis
400
The process of combining ideas to form a theory.
What is synthesis?
400
The major point of the paragraph, essay, or other writing suggested or inferred by the supporting details, but not directly stated by the author.
What is an implied main idea?
400
Method of organizing materials in a logical order.
What is a classification pattern?
400
A statement of exact meaning followed by a thing characteristic of like things used to illustrate an idea, rule, or generalization.
What are a definition and example?
500
Splitting the information into smaller, more understandable amounts of information. In reading, splitting a word down to its base parts such as suffix, prefix, root word, or other parts of speech.
What is chunking?
500
A logical conclusion derived from information assumed to be true.
What is inference?
500
The broad or narrow facts added to support the main idea of a passage.
What are major and minor details?
500
To compare in such a way as to show similarities or differences.
What is comparing and contrasting?
500
A principle, aim, or movement that gives rise to action, reaction, phenomenon, or condition and the result or consequence of an action or other cause.