Main Idea/Theme
What the story is mostly about
What is Main Idea?
The way an author organizes information in a text
Helps understand facts, points the reader to important information
What are Text Features?
Hints that help you figure out unknown words and understand what you are reading
What are Context Clues?
The type of story
Genre
Big idea, lesson or message about life that the author expresses
The sequence of events that make up a story
What is Plot?
Who is telling the story
What is Point of View
Using facts and evidence to come to a conclusion or take an educated guess
What is an inference?
Key Characteristics
Evidence that supports the main idea
What are details?
The plot element that introduces that introduces the characters and their problems.
What is the Exposition?
A picture that shows you different parts of something
What is a diagram?
To pay attention to what is hinted but not directly stated
What is to "read between the lines"?
The authors attitude
Tone
A theme must be:
Universal, more than 1 word, implied
Text structure that is used to list events in the order that they happened?
What is Order and Sequence or Chronological?
Narrator is outside the story and knows all the characters thoughts and feelings
What is 3rd person, Omniscient?
What are synonyms, antonyms, explanations and examples
The readers feelings
Where the main idea is most often found
First or last few sentences
Introduces the characters and their conflicts
What is the Exposition?
The definition of words in ABC order
What is the Glossary?
Two elements you should use to make an inference
Details from the story and prior knowledge (schema)
True or false: The words the author uses create the mood AND the tone
True