READING SKILLS |
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A (FACT; OPINION) can be proven... |
What is a fact? |
#2 |
What a person thinks or feels about a subject |
What is an opinion? |
#3 |
Finding how two things are similar or different |
What is compare and contrast? |
#4 |
You use these to prove inferences. |
What isproof from the story? |
#5 |
kind, obnoxious, and bored are all examples of what? |
What are character traits? |
Yes, I've Got Reading Skills! |
#1 |
Beginning, Middle, and End (BME) is the same as a --- |
What is a summary? |
#2 |
What a paragraph or story is mainly about? |
What is the main/central idea? |
#3 |
When things are presented by the author in the order they happened, or as they happened |
What is sequence? (organization) |
#4 |
The time and place where a story happens |
What is setting? |
#5 |
What you think might happen next in a story based on what you have read |
What is a prediction? |
LET'S TALK ABOUT STAAR BABY! |
#1 |
Instead of relying on your memory, you should do this when answering the questions |
What is go back, reread, and prove your answer? |
#2 |
A quick way to find the summary of a literary selection |
CASPER-character, problem and solution |
#3 |
The reason the author wrote a selection is called --- |
What is author's purpose? (PIExEn) |
#4 |
Cause and effect is an example of the organization an author can choose for a passage. Name three others. |
Main Idea and details, sequence (as it happened), problem- solution, compare/contrast |
#5 |
An educated guess based on the information in the text and your background knowledge. |
What is an inference? |
Strategies |
#1 |
The first thing you should do when you are given theselection to read. |
What is highlight and read the title? |
#2 |
You should do while reading each selection |
Highlight/circle important information and take notes |
#3 |
You should do this after completing each paragraph in a selection |
take notes |
#4 |
When you get to the questions, what should you do? |
BOX important words like supports, shows, illustrates/CODE your questions |
#5 |
BEFORE answering a question, you should do these two things. |
Use a crayon to proove your answer, FIND PROOF! |