Reading Skills

Front

What is the central message of a story?

Back

The lesson, moral, or message

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

Front

What is an inference?

Back

An educated guess

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

Front

What is cause in cause and effect?

Back

The reason or why something happened in a text

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.3

CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.5.3

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.7.3

Front

What is Main Idea?

Back

What a paragraph or text is mostly about

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

Front

What is opinion?

Back

The author's belief about a topic

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Front

When an author shows but doesn't directly tell the reader about something, then the reader must ____

Back

make an inference

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

Front

When a reader uses the strategy of *looking for the advice that a wiser character gives to a struggling character*, they are trying to:

find the central message

,

find the main character's feelings

,

find a character's traits

,

make an inference

Back

find the central message

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

Front

When a reader uses the strategy of looking for the result or what happened in a text, they are:

• comparing and contrasting
• finding the effect
• finding the central message
• finding the cause

Back

finding the effect

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.3

CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.5.3

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.7.3

Front

When a reader uses the strategy of thinking about how things are the same and uses word clues such as same, both, similar, comparison, they are

Back

comparing

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

Front

When a reader *looks for repeating words, synonyms, or asks themselves, "What is this text mostly about?"* they are

Back

looking for the main idea

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.3.4A

CCSS.RF.3.4C

CCSS.RF.4.4B