Reading Skills Taught Flashcard

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The reason an author writes a text?

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Author's Purpose

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How an author feels about a text, topic, or viewpoint?

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Author's Perspective

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The lesson learned or moral of the story

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Theme

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Describes how a character acts, thinks, feels, and says

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character traits

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Telling how settings, themes, and plots are the same and different

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compare and contrast

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Where a story takes place including the time and location?

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Setting

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Who the story is about; can be animals or people

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characters

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What a story or text is mostly about

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Main idea

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words or phrases that mean exactly what they say

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literal

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words or phrases that do NOT mean exactly what they say

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non-literal