Third Grade Reading

What is an inference?

• the main idea of a story

• a prediction of what is going to happen in the story

• an educated guess based on evidence and personal knowledge

• the message or moral of the story

What do you need when you cite evidence from the text?

• details

• background information

• Details plus explanation/reasoning

• An explanation of what is happening

What is the main purpose of highlighting or note taking while reading a text?

• to review key information

• to define unknown words

• to help you memorize the main idea

• to show you read the text

Which of the following is a simile?

• Many people like pizza

• A leopard can't change his spots

• A tree danced in the wind

• As cool as a cucumber

What is point of view?

• the moral of the story

• the position from which a story is told

• the genre

• character traits

A good paragraph has how many sentences?

• 1-2

• 2-3

• 4-6

• 6-8

When you are a good close reader, you.....

• skim the text

• take notes or highlight

• read more than once

• all of the above

True or False Always read the directions, titles and the complete question and all answers?

• True

• False

To contrast is to point out.....

• Similarities

• Differences

• Point of View

• Main Idea

What does it mean to use context clues to figure out a word's meaning?

• Use the words around it

• Highlight and look it up later

• All of the above

• None of the above