Reading Skills 101

What is an inference?

• A final decision

• What the story is mostly about

• The author's belief

• An educated guess

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RL.3.1

When thinking about cause and effect, what is cause?

• The lesson, moral, or message in a text

• The reason or why something happened in a text

• An educated guess based on what the author shows but doesn't tell the reader in a text

• The result or what happened in a text

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.3

CCSS.RI.3.8

What is the central message, or theme, of a story?

• The effect of an action

• The cause of an action

• The lesson, moral, or message

• The differences between things

What is main idea?

• The solutions to problems in a story

• The steps of actions in a text in the exact order they happen

• What a paragraph or text is mostly about

• The struggle a character faces in a story

What is opinion as it relates to reading?

• What a paragraph or text is mostly about

• The solution to a problem in a story

• The lesson, moral, or message of a story

• The author's belief about a topic

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

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.3

CCSS.RI.3.8

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

• finding the sequence of events

• finding cause and effect

• making an inference

• comparing

When a reader

*looks for how two or more things are not alike

*looks for word clues such as however, yet, but, while, on the other hand

they are

• finding the main idea and details

• looking at causes and effects

• finding problem and solution

• comparing and contrasting

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.8

CCSS.RI.3.9

The reason why something happened is called

• Effect

• Cause

• Opinion

• Infer

The difference between two or more things

• Compare

• Problem

• Contrast

• Solution