reading skills

What the text is mostly about, and what the author wants me to know about the most.

• sequence of events

• main idea and details

• compare and contrast

• cause and effect

Making a smart guess about something the author does not say directly.

• compare and contrast

• summary

• main idea

• drawing conclusions

Finding the beginning, middle, and end of the text.

• summary

• inference

• character traits

• text and graphic features

How a character is as a person.

• sequence of events

• Character traits

• story elements

• character feelings

A person's own beliefs, thoughts, or judgments.

• fact

• opinion

The order of what happens in a story.

• sequence of events

• story elements

• making connections

• text and graphic features

Captions, headings, photographs, titles, glossary, and maps are all examples of

• summary

• compare and contrast

• main idea

• text and graphic connections

Using background knowledge to relate to text

• text and graphic features

• point of view

• character traits

• text connections

Finding ways that 2 things are alike and different

• compare and contrast

• sequence of events

• summary

• drawing conclusions

The reason why something happens and what happens because of it

• sequence of events

• cause and effect

• main idea

• inference