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WorksheetsHMH Video Review - Key Concepts for Unit 3
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 9mins
What is the main idea of a text/story?
How the text/story is set-up
What the text/story is about
Why the author wrote the text/story
An educated guess
How do you find the main idea of a text/story?
(3 correct answers!)
Call or email the author of the text/story and ask
Look at the key details and context clues
Analyze the text features, such as the title
Look at the first and last paragraphs of the text/story
A thesis is a statement of the main idea the author wants to support.
True
False
Sometimes the author implies what the main idea is. What does it mean to imply?
to directly state the meaning
to make an educated guess
to ask a question
to strongly suggest the meaning
What does it mean to "make an inference"?
to randomly guess what something means
to look up information you don't know
to make an educated guess based on context clues and background information
huh?
How do you make inferences?
You don't need to make inferences. You should know everything already!
By analyzing context clues (the words in the text/story)
By using background information (what you already know about a topic)
By only looking at the first sentence of the paragraph
What is text structure?
How the author organizes the text/story
What the text/story is about
A piece of the text that offers more information about the topic
An educated guess
What are the most common types of text structure?
descriptive, vivid, and detailed
cause and effect, chronological (time) order, compare and contrast, and problem/solution
chronological (time) order, narrative, and poem
short story, novel, compare and contrast, and problem/solution
Which two of these options is are ways to determine text structure?
Ask, "How are the ideas related?"
Google it
Look at text features
Read the footnotes
What is author's purpose?
The reason the reader reads the text/story
Why the author wrote the text/story
The mood or tone of the text/story
How the author wrote the text/story
What are four main reasons for writing?
