Reading Comprehension

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What is reading comprehension?

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Reading comprehension is the ability to understand and make meaning from written text.

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What does it mean to identify the main idea?

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Identifying the main idea means finding the most important point or message in a text.

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What is a detail in a story?

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A detail is a specific piece of information that supports the main idea or helps to describe something.

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What does it mean to make inferences?

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Making inferences means using clues from the text and your own knowledge to understand something that is not directly stated.

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What is a character in a story?

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A character is a person, animal, or figure in a story.

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What is a setting in a story?

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The setting is where and when the story takes place.

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What is a plot?

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The plot is the sequence of events that make up a story.

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What does it mean to summarize a text?

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To summarize a text means to give a brief overview of the main points.

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What is a question that helps you understand a text better?

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A question that helps you understand a text better is one that asks about the main idea, details, or characters.

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What is a prediction in reading?

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A prediction is a guess about what will happen next in a story based on clues from the text.