shared human experience

The moral or lesson of the story that shares a common human experience

the subject of the article plus what the author reveals about that subject

when a reader takes or gains something from the text, many times an inference

when a reader decides something

when a reader uses what they know and clues from the text to come to a conclusion

a sentence from the text that supports or explains your idea(s)

copying information word for word from the text. a direct quote

when information is directly stated

more than three

when information expands or grows over time