Analyze Historical Text
A _____ is the reason something happens, and a ______ is what happens as a result.
What is cause and effect?
Use the following words to define the meaning of the prefix dis-.
Disappear, Disagree, Disappoint
What is not?
These are facts and examples that support the main idea.
What are key details?
A summary should be these 3 things.
What is in your own words, short, and contain key details?
Identify and correct the errors in the following sentence:
We was going to wacth a movie today.
We are going to watch a movie today.
_______ is the order in which events happen.
What is sequence?
Use context clues from the sentence to define prototype.
The scientists tested the moon rover prototype in the 1960's.
What is the first model of something.
Define main idea in your own words.
What is the big idea or most important thing the author wants you to know about the topic?
A key detail should do everything except:
a. Support the main idea
b. Provide less important information
c. Be essential to understanding the text
What is provide less important information?
Identify and correct the errors in the following sentence:
We live close too Atlanta witch is the capital of georgia
We live close to Atlanta which is the capital of Georgia.
_______ and ______ explain what is similar or different about between people, places, things, and ideas.
What is compare and contrast?
The computer is old and inefficient.
Define inefficient using knowledge of prefixes and context clues.
What is does not work well or quickly?
Identify the main idea of the following text.
Angela would never get her room clean. It looked like a tornado had hit it. She couldn’t believe how much damage her friends had done. They pulled everything out and didn’t put anything back. Her stuffed animals were all over the floor. Glue was spilled all over her rug, and fingernail polish was spilled on her new bedspread. They had even wiped their chocolate covered fingers on her curtains. “What am I going to do?” she asked herself.
What is Angela's friends are messy?
Summarize the text in 12 words or less.
The tallest tree in the world is a giant redwood located in Humboldt Redwoods State Park in Northern California. This tree is 380 feet tall. That's more than twice as tall as the Statue of Liberty! Only a few people know exactly where this tree is. The people who discovered it have kept it a secret, so people will not damage it.
At 380 feet, the world's tallest tree is a redwood in California.
Identify and correct the errors in the following sentence:
She nose there selling tikets to the game during lunch
She knows they're selling tickets to the game during lunch.
Read the sentence. Determine if the italicized words are the cause or effect.
Since the car was making a strange noise, my dad took it to a mechanic.
What is effect?
I reached the midpoint of the race.
Define midpoint using knowledge of prefixes and context clues.
What is halfway or the middle?
Identify 3 key details that support the main idea of the text.
Identify the main idea of the following text.
Angela would never get her room clean. It looked like a tornado had hit it. She couldn’t believe how much damage her friends had done. They pulled everything out and didn’t put anything back. Her stuffed animals were all over the floor. Glue was spilled all over her rug, and fingernail polish was spilled on her new bedspread. They had even wiped their chocolate covered fingers on her curtains. “What am I going to do?” she asked herself.
1. They pulled everything out and didn’t put anything back.
2. Glue was spilled all over her rug, and fingernail polish was spilled on her new bedspread.
3. They had even wiped their chocolate covered fingers on her curtains.
Summarize the text in 12 words or less.
After traveling more than 8 months through space, Curiosity, the NASA land rover, landed on Mars on August 5, 2012. Curiosity has 6 wheels and 17 cameras, as well as other research equipment. Its mission is to explore the planet and send the information it gathers back to Earth.
The land rover, Curiosity, landed on Mars and will gather data.
This type of clause is a complete sentence.
What is an independent clause?
Read the sentence. Determine if the italicized words are the cause or effect.
The cookies burned because Susie forgot to take the out of the oven.
What is cause?
Use context clues from the sentence to define persisted.
Ms. Shirley persisted and finished the Jeopardy review game, even though she was tired.
What is continuing to work or complete something despite difficulty?
Read the following passage and identify the topic and main idea.
The cheetah is the fastest land animal in the world. They can run up to 70 mph, which is as fast as a car traveling on the highway. The cheetah can reach its top speed in just 3 seconds. When it is running, its stride, or the length between steps, is 21 feet. Cheetahs’ feet only touch the ground twice during each stride. The cheetah is known for its astonishing speed!
Topic: _______
Main Idea: _________________________________
The topic is cheetahs, and the main idea is the cheetah is the fastest land animal in the world.
Read the following text and write a summary in 1 or 2 sentences.
Yellowstone National Park is mainly located in Wyoming, although three percent is located in the state of Montana. The Continental Divide of North America runs diagonally through the southwestern part of the park. The park sits on the Yellowstone Plateau, which is an average elevation of 8,000 feet above sea level. This plateau is bounded on nearly all sides by mountain ranges. There are 290 waterfalls that are at least fifteen feet in the park, the highest being the Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River, which falls 308 feet.
Yellowstone Park, in Wyoming, is on a large plateau and has many waterfalls.
This part of speech can describe a verb or adjective.
What is an adverb?