Reading Skills 1
What a Venn Diagram is used for
What is comparison/contrast?
To say that a specific event or consequence will occur in the future
What is making a prediction?
The central point or thought the author wants to communicate to readers
What is the main idea?
Should be included in a detailed summary
What are the main idea and supporting details?
The text underneath a picture
What is a caption?
Looking for differences among two or more things
What is contrasting?
Looking for what two or more things have in common
What is comparison?
What the all-caps portion of the following sentence describes: They call me Crash because I AM ALWAYS CRASHING INTO THINGS.
What is the cause?
What the all-caps portion of the following sentence describes: MARVIN CLIMBED ONTO THE KITCHEN TABLE when he saw a mouse.
What is effect?
Something that is known or proven to be true
What is fact?
examples, descriptions, evidence, statistics, facts
What is are details?
A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning
What is inference?
To entertain, persuade, inform, explain
What are the four purposes for writing?
A view or judgment formed about something that is not necessarily based on fact or knowledge
What is opinion?
The part of the story that contains all the events
What is the plot?