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Understanding Key Concepts in Reading

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does describe mean?

a)

To guess the ending

b)

To tell what something is like

c)

To draw a picture

d)

To ask a question

2.

What does explain mean?

a)

To tell how or why something happens

b)

To write a summary

c)

To change your answer

d)

To skip a question

3.

What does compare mean?

a)

Tell how things are the same

b)

Tell the order of events

c)

Tell the main idea

d)

Tell how things are different

4.

What does contrast mean?

a)

Tell why a character acts a certain way

b)

Tell the difference between two things

c)

Tell the lesson of the story

d)

Tell what happens first

5.

What does infer mean?

a)

Use clues to figure something out

b)

Ask a partner for help

c)

Read the story again

d)

Find the heading

6.

What does predict mean?

a)

Tell how you feel

b)

Tell what happened last

c)

Tell what you think will happen next

d)

Tell the main idea

7.

What does summarize mean?

a)

Tell every detail

b)

Tell the most important parts

c)

Tell what characters say

d)

Tell what you liked

8.

What does identify mean?

a)

To create something

b)

To find or point out

c)

To tell a story

d)

To check your work

9.

What is a character?

a)

Where the story happens

b)

A person or animal in a story

c)

The big idea of the text

d)

The main problem

10.

What is the setting?

a)

The order things happen

b)

The place and time of the story

c)

How the problem is solved

d)

What the characters say

11.

What does moral/message/lesson mean?

a)

A character’s name

b)

The lesson the story teaches

c)

The first event

d)

A funny part of the story

12.

What is a challenge in a story?

a)

Something easy for a character

b)

Something a character eats

c)

Something hard a character must face

d)

Something the author tells you

13.

What is dialogue?

a)

Words the characters say

b)

The main idea

c)

A picture in the book

d)

The ending of a story

14.

What is the main idea?

a)

A picture in the text

b)

What the text is mostly about

c)

A fun fact

d)

The title of the book

15.

What are key details?

a)

Extra information

b)

Words you skip

c)

Important facts that tell more about the main idea

d)

Words the characters say

16.

What is cause?

a)

What happened because of something

b)

Why something happens

c)

A picture or chart

d)

The end of the story

17.

What is effect?

a)

What happens because of something else

b)

The first event

c)

A character’s feelings

d)

A text feature

18.

What does author’s purpose mean?

a)

Why the author wrote the text

b)

Where the author lives

c)

The author’s favorite part

d)

The ending of the story

19.

What does text features mean?

a)

Parts of the text that help you (such as bold words, captions, footnotes)

b)

Words you don’t know

c)

The pictures only

d)

The characters’ actions

20.

What does locate mean?

a)

To lose something

b)

To find something

c)

To write something

d)

To change something

21.

What does represent mean?

a)

To hide something

b)

To show something in a picture or example

c)

To say something loudly

d)

To ask a question

22.

What does determine mean?

a)

To tell a joke

b)

To figure something out

c)

To read aloud

d)

To walk away