Reading Skills and Strategies
What the author wants to communicate to the reader.
What is message?
An educated guess made by connecting what you read with what you already know.
What is inferencing?
The underlying reasons that prompt characters to act or speak in specific ways.
What is motivation?
Information, facts, examples, and details that support the controlling idea/thesis.
What is evidence?
To make changes to written material.
What is to revise?
Identify significant details in the text and check that they support the key ideas.
What is to evaluate?
The main points in a text that help me understand its main message.
What is key ideas?
Various techniques and literary devices authors use to create a story.
What is author's craft?
The end of the story where the conflict is resolved in one way or another.
What is resolution?
The reason why something is done.
What is purpose?
To grow or cause to grow and become more mature, advanced, or elaborate.
What is to develop?
To make a statement or situation less confused and more clear.
What is clarify?
A group of people living together in a more or less ordered community.
What is society?
A person or thing who plays a part in a story.
What is a character?
To modify written material.
What is to edit?
The way the author organizes the ideas in a text.
What is text structure?
The use of details, examples, evidence, or facts to back up a claim, idea, or argument, ensuring the text is clear, convincing, and well-supported.
What is text support?
Why the author wrote the text (to inform, entertain, explain, persuade, describe, etc.).
What is author's purpose?
The problem in the story that the main character needs to face.
What is conflict?
The main points in a text that help me understand its main message.
What is key idea?
The words, sentences, or paragraphs that come before or after a word.
What is context clues?
Establishing a relationship or understanding between two or more things, ideas, or people.
What is making connection?
The ability to have an effect on the character, development, or behavior of someone or something in a story.
What is influence?
Using a mix of sentence structures and lengths to avoid monotony and create engaging, clear, and impactful writing.
What is sentence variety?
The specific words that an author selects to convey meaning, tone, and actions as related to the author's purpose.
What is word choice?
A verbal or written answer in reaction to something.
What is a response?
The purpose of information that is given or provided that can help the author convey their message.
What is to contribute?
The specific decisions made by an author.
What is author's choice?
Stories that share similar subject matter, themes, styles, or characteristic of a particular category/type.
What is across/within genres?
To examine or look for the difference between two or more things.
What is to compare?