Reading Vocabulary

The reason that the author wrote a text and made decisions about including and organizing information and details

• sequential organization

• author's purpose

• text structure

• organizational pattern

Also called a thesis, the main or most important idea in a text

• inference

• theme

• central idea

• text structure

Draw conclusions, to conclude, to infer

• summarize

• synthesize

• make an inference

• resolve

The people and sometimes animals in a story

• characters

• plot

• resolution

• climax

An organization pattern in which the author follows the order of time

• cause/effect

• description

• problem/solution

• chronological/ sequential order

The moment of big conflict in a story where a character is forced to action

• falling action

• plot

• climax

• rising action

An organization pattern in which the author compares similarities and/or differences of one or more objects or ideas

• sequential

• compare/contrast organization

• description

• problem/solution

An organizational pattern that describes something by giving details about its characteristics

• problem/solution

• description

• cause/effect

• chronological/ sequential

Words spoken between characters in a story or play

• narrator

• dialogue

• stage directions

• scenes

Information in a text that supports an inference

• summary

• organizational pattern

• evidence

• inference