The who or the what of a passage + the most important information about the who or the what.

The bits and pieces of information that support the main idea.

A shortened version of the text tha focuses on the main idea.

The author's attitude toward or opinion about the subject.

The author's reason for writring.

A statement of the author's point of view.

The author's way of writing and the words they choose to use in their writing.

Professional or academic language; sometimes uses more difficult words.

Conversational language - words you use with your friends; may include slang.

An educated guess based on the information in a passage and your prior knowledge (what you already know).

The way an author arranges/organizes the text.

Present information or events in the order in which they happen.

The Text shows a problem and then offers a solution to the problem.

The text empahsizes how actions or events cause others to take place.

The text portrays events in the order they occur.

The text focuses on the similarities and differences between two people, things or ideas.

Taking information from two or more areas of text and adding all this connected information together come up with a conclusion.

To use details, facts and evidence from a text to come to a new understanding about topic or idea.

Putting a part of or all of a text you read into your own words.

The reason something happens.

What happens as a result of the event or action.

To find the similarities between two or more things.

To find the differences between two or more things.

A personal belief or judgement that cannot be proven.

A statement that can be proven by asking experts, looking up information in a book, etc.

A statement that many people assume to be true, however it is still an opinion even though many people agree with it.