reading vocab review

What is a claim?

• I claim that my teachers are the best.

• A statement the author is trying to prove, usually supported by evidence.

• A personal opinion with no evidence.

• Something you shout at a baseball game.

What is an "Intended Audience"?

• Someone watching TV

• A video game about aliens invading Earth

• The listener, viewer, or reader of a text

• A song by Kanye West

A message about life that the author wants readers to know is called ________.

• conflict

• theme

• setting

• solution

Telling in your own words what the main idea (central idea) of a passage is AND giving the key details is called a __________.

• summary
• key detail
• main idea

An inference is...

• Text evidence + what you know

• Retelling a text

• Making a guess without evidence

• Information written directly into the text.

How does imagery help us understand the story?

• It doesn't
• By expressing how the author is feeling
• Imagery helps us to see, touch, taste, smell, and feel what the characters feel and see
• By telling the mood

The Central Idea is...

• What the story is mostly about

• A long, detailed summary

• The moral of the story

• The most exciting moment

How the author organizes the information in the text

• summary

• text structure

• main idea

• text features

This type of text structure includes something that is wrong or needs to be fixed and a way to fix the problem.

• cause and effect

• chronological

• problem and solution

• compare and contrast

This type of text structure includes something that happened and the reasons why it happened.

• cause and effect

• problem and solution

• description

• fact and opinion