WorksheetsUnderstanding Key Concepts in Reading
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 11mins
What does describe mean?
To guess the ending
To tell what something is like
To draw a picture
To ask a question
What does explain mean?
To tell how or why something happens
To write a summary
To change your answer
To skip a question
What does compare mean?
Tell how things are the same
Tell the order of events
Tell the main idea
Tell how things are different
What does contrast mean?
Tell why a character acts a certain way
Tell the difference between two things
Tell the lesson of the story
Tell what happens first
What does infer mean?
Use clues to figure something out
Ask a partner for help
Read the story again
Find the heading
What does predict mean?
Tell how you feel
Tell what happened last
Tell what you think will happen next
Tell the main idea
What does summarize mean?
Tell every detail
Tell the most important parts
Tell what characters say
Tell what you liked
What does identify mean?
To create something
To find or point out
To tell a story
To check your work
What is a character?
Where the story happens
A person or animal in a story
The big idea of the text
The main problem
What is the setting?
The order things happen
The place and time of the story
How the problem is solved
What the characters say
What does moral/message/lesson mean?
A character’s name
The lesson the story teaches
The first event
A funny part of the story
What is a challenge in a story?
Something easy for a character
Something a character eats
Something hard a character must face
Something the author tells you
What is dialogue?
Words the characters say
The main idea
A picture in the book
The ending of a story
What is the main idea?
A picture in the text
What the text is mostly about
A fun fact
The title of the book
What are key details?
Extra information
Words you skip
Important facts that tell more about the main idea
Words the characters say
What is cause?
What happened because of something
Why something happens
A picture or chart
The end of the story
What is effect?
What happens because of something else
The first event
A character’s feelings
A text feature
What does author’s purpose mean?
Why the author wrote the text
Where the author lives
The author’s favorite part
The ending of the story
What does text features mean?
Parts of the text that help you (such as bold words, captions, footnotes)
Words you don’t know
The pictures only
The characters’ actions
What does locate mean?
To lose something
To find something
To write something
To change something
What does represent mean?
To hide something
To show something in a picture or example
To say something loudly
To ask a question
What does determine mean?
To tell a joke
To figure something out
To read aloud
To walk away
