Laziness is a bad trait to have is an example of

When you are questioning a text you should

what is a prediction?

What are the parts to the Author's Purpose PIE?

Which one is not a type of connection you can make while you are reading?

Summarizing a text is

An inference is also known as

the conflict of a text is

what is plot

why is reading the title of a story important?

There are about 13,000 wild horses in our country. Most are in the high lands of the Southwest. The horses find great difficulty in getting food during the winter months. Snow covers the grass and small bushes that they feed on. Their numbers grow smaller each year.

What is the main idea?

The Navajo Indians have greatly increased in numbers in the last one hundred years. One hundred years ago there were about six thousand Navajo. Today there are fifteen times that many Navajo Indians - ninety thousand. Today the Navajo is the biggest Indian tribe.

What is the main idea?

Select the supporting detail that doesn't fit.

Topic Sentence:Doing your homework has many benefits.

What can you infer from this picture

What can you infer about this picture

What could you infer about someone smiling?

An organization that buys and sells things.

A short time to take a rest.

A table you sit at to write and work.

A document with a summary of a subject.

group of people who participate in a show or encounter a work of art, literature, theatre, music, video games, or academics in any medium.

_______________ may be to amuse the reader, to persuade the reader, to inform the reader, or to entertain.

cause (someone) to do something through reasoning or argument.

give (someone) facts or information; tell.

provide (someone) with amusement or enjoyment.

biodegradable is

when something rots or breaks down

Check the all the things you need to find while reading a text.

Authors _________ by giving reasons, examples, and evidence that tell why they do not agree with the conflicting viewpoint.

True or False.

Authors will include a conflicting viewpoint to help make their argument stronger.

in conflict or competition with a subject

What is environmentalism?

As her high school days came to a close, Martha enjoyed the benefits of all her efforts. She graduated as one of the top ten students in her class. She also received a Rotary Club scholarship as a reward for high grades and leadership.

Martha had been a(n) ________ student.

Arriving in Orlando with her mom, Kristi was the center of the media's attention. When reporters asked Kristin about her years of training and dedication, she was quick to thank her mom and dad. "My parents have worked hard and made a lot of sacrifices," she said.

She was ____________.

Some animals have a repertoire of ferocious-looking warnings but no real ability to back them up. Hognose snakes are not fighters, but they have an elaborate display of defensive postures. When first threatened, a hognose snake will coil and hiss like any other snake. If the danger continues, the snake pretends to be ferocious. It spreads its neck like a cobra does.

This is how it ____________ itself.

A bag of dirt, Keith says, "can tell us more about the web of life in this region than can one single dinosaur bone. We can find out what else lived here, what grew here, what animals ate them. And it's faster than crawling around sniffing dirt."

The dirt can be ____________.

The older adults did not know how to read, and the younger ones mouthed each syllable like children; nobody wrote with any confidence... I received a letter from the Dukas a year after I had been to stay with them. It was a piece of card covered with their autographs, which were elderly and tremulous, or else childishly deliberate. Below, there were a few lines which were not in any language at all, but which gave the graphic sense of a letter, and that was the point.

They want to _________.

Speed skaters lean forward at the waist for their entire race. That way, the air will pass over their backs the same way air passes over the top of an airplane. The skaters keep their backs straight and their heads up, eyes looking forward. In the 500 meters, they swing their arms vigorously from side to side for the entire race to increase their speed. In longer races, the skaters sometimes put one arm flat against their back to conserve their energy. Speed skating is hard work, but Bonnie makes it look natural.

The skater's _____________ is important.

Every summer since he could remember, Glen had wanted to gather wild rice. As the harvest approached each year, the people in his town were busy preparing their boats, knockers, and poles. In his own family wild rice was the main topic of conversation during many meals. His parents talked about where the rice was growing best that season and planned which beds they would harvest. Several times Glen had waited at the boat landing for his parents to come back from the rice bed, eager to help them pull their boatload of rice onshore. Now he would be taking part in the harvest himself.

Gathering rice was _____________.

If you're interested in playing hockey, it may be a long time before you actually join a team. You need time to learn how to skate, practice the basics, get in shape, and figure out what your skills are and what position you want to play. Each position in hockey gives equally to the success of the team.

You need to ____________.

Susie was the youngest in her family. She had warm brown eyes, a sunny smile, heavy long black hair, and big ideas. She followed her sisters as they helped their mother. She swept the wooden floor clean, down to the cracks, with a stick broom that was as tall as she was. She learned how to plant corn and beans and melons, and how to harvest them when the honking geese swept southward across the sky. She learned how to mix pemmican, a food made of meat and fat, and she stood on tiptoe to taste the sweet golden pies her mother made out of squash.

Susie was. ______________.

If a driver is using a manual transmission and shifting hundreds or even thousands of times during a race, there is added strain. All of this is happening as the cockpit temperature rises to 140 degrees. Then there is the emotional pressure of trying to go faster than many other fast cars. Race car drivers must be well conditioned, especially if they are really planning to win.

Racing cars is ____________.

FDR has been called the first great American radio voice. He took office in 1933, during the early days of radio, and became the first chief executive to make full use of the new medium. When he was scheduled to speak, people wouldn't think of making other plans. If they did not yet own a radio set, they would walk across the street or up the road to visit friends or neighbors who did.

His radio speeches were _______________.

He never knew exactly what it was that woke him. When, through the confusion of half-dreams and imagined noises, he realized that he was awake, the room was quite dark. There was no sound but the constant murmur of the sea, very faint on this side of the house but always in the air. But from the way all his senses were straining to catch something, he knew that a part of him which had not quite gone to sleep at all was warning him of some danger very near. He lay very still, but he could hear nothing. Then there was a very faint creak behind him, from the direction of the door.

He was _____________.