What Do We Know?

What is main idea?

• why something happened

• what the story is mostly about

• details

• a form of expression

What do we use to support the main idea?

• supporting details

• cause and effect

• character details

• point of view

What is the author's purpose for writing?

• to persuade, to entertain, to inform

• to play, to sleep, to eat

• to read, to write, to type

• to do math

What is theme?

• the purpose for writing

• the main message

• what the story is mostly about

• an inference

What is an inference?

• cause and effect

• what the author is not saying

• main idea

• theme

What questions help us make an inference?

• "what do you notice?" & "what do you wonder?"

• "what do you like?" & "what do you not like?"

• "what's right?" & "what's wrong?"

• "what is your view?" & "what is their view?"

What is the cause?

• why something happened

• what happened

• what you notice

• what you wonder

What is the effect?

• why something happened

• what happened

• what you notice

• what you wonder

What are nonfiction text features used for?

• to help the reader better understand nonfiction text

• to read for the reader

• to make reading fun

What does compare and contrast mean?

• cause and effect

• describing how things are the same and different

• same

• different