Reading Skills
Question your reading, thinking out loud, summarizing.
What is Active Reading
This helps you find the meaning of a word or phrase
What are context clues
To figure out the main idea of an entire passage you need to focus especially on…
What is the first paragraph and last paragraph
Words that sound the same but have different spellings
What are homophones
This is used to compare two dissimilar things. Usually uses words such as “like, as, than” to introduce the comparison.
What is a simile
When the author doesn’t state something but you have to read between the lines to figure it out.
What is Inferring
A word that has the same meaning
What is a synonym
To figure out the main idea of a paragraph, you need to focus on…
What is the first and last sentence
A relationship between actions or events in which one or more are the result of the others
What is Cause & Effect
Used to compare, but the comparison is implied and doesn’t use stated words like a simile does
What is a metaphor
When the author states something directly, it is …..
What is explicitly stated
A word that has the opposite meaning
What is an antonym
When you ask yourself “who, what, where, when, why,” as you are reading, you are discovering the….
What is writer’s intent or writer's purpose
Looking at similarities and differences
What is compare and contrast
Non human things or objects are given human characteristics
What is personification
Fiction, tells a story
What is a Narrative
This is placed before the root word. Adding it to the beginning of a word changes it into another word.
What is a prefix
When the author implies something, it is stated…
What is Implicitly
What happened and how was it solved
What is problem & solution
Overstatement or Exaggeration.
What is Hyperbole
Non fiction, facts, informational text
Non fiction, facts, informational text
This is added to the end of a word to change the form of the word
What is a suffix
These are clues the author gives to help define a word
What are context clues
Using figures of speech to be more effective, examples are metaphors, similes, allusions, personification
What is figurative language
The meaning that the author had in mind when he or she created it
What is author’s intent