Preassessment

What does it mean to identify key details in a text?

• To find the most interesting parts of the story

• To locate the main ideas and important facts that support those ideas

• To choose details that are not important to the story

• To rewrite the story in your own words

When determining the meaning of words in a text, what strategy is most effective?

• Guessing the meaning based on how the word sounds

• Ignoring the word and continuing to read

• Using the words and sentences around the unknown word to figure out its meaning

• Changing the word to a more familiar word

What is the purpose of summarizing a text?

• To make the text longer and more detailed

• To explain why the author wrote the text

• To briefly state the main ideas and key details of the text

• To critique and review the text for others

Which of the following is an example of using context clues to understand a word?

• Looking up the word in a dictionary

• Asking a friend what the word means

• Noticing that the word "benevolent" is used along with words like "kind" and "generous" in a sentence

• Skipping the word and hoping it's not important

How can cause and effect help in understanding a text?

• By showing which characters are friends

• By explaining the reasons things happen and the results of those events

• By describing the setting in detail

• By providing a list of dates and times when events occurred