Unit 1 Review

What does main idea mean?

• What the article/story is mostly about.

• A summary of the article/story.

• All the details of a text.

• The main character in a story.

What are key details in a text.

• What the article/story is mostly about.

• The specific sentences in a text that support the main idea.

• A summary of the text.

• Keys that open up the text.

In cause and effect, what is the cause?

• What happens because of something else.

• Why something happens.

• The order things happen.

• Reading the text.

In cause and effect, what is the effect?

• Why something happens.

• Unlocking the main idea.

• Putting things in order.

• The result of what happened.

What does sequencing mean?

• Out of order.

• Why something happens.

• The order in which things happen.

• The main idea.

What is a summary?

• Restate the question.

• Putting things in order.

• Explaining all of the key details in an article/story.

• One or two sentences about the main idea of an article/story.

What is an inference?

• Reading the text and your own knowledge to draw a conclusion about what the author is saying.

• Guessing what the article/story is about.

• Reading an article/story more than once.

• Using what you know to figure out what the author is saying.

If Billy Joe Bob pulled up to school, got out of his car, and put up his umbrella, what can you infer?

• He needed shade from the sun.

• He likes umbrellas.

• It's raining.

• It was windy outside.

A scientific text usually has what in it?

• cause and effect

• sequence

• main idea

• details

In an historical text, when does it usually take place?

• now

• future

• long ago

• yesterday