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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
To talk about or tell...
What is explain?
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
When the central idea is clearly stated in the text
What is a stated main idea?
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
When the main idea is not stated in the text. The reader must use clues to determine this.
What is an implied main idea?
400
Three sections of the outline to writing a summary. Synonymous with "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
A graphic organizer that helps you to compare and contrast
What is a Venn Diagram
500
Key details from the text provide you with clues so that the reader is able to do this
What is better understand the text?
500
The length of a summary compared to the original text
What is shorter?
500
Some may say that to do this is risky... unless you do this in an "educated" way, using clues and details from the text.
What is a(n educated) guess?
500
This type of text teaches you about important events in history
What is a historical text?
500
Concepts or ways of thinking
What are ideas?