HMH Video Review - Key Concepts for Unit 3

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