Basic Reading Skills

What is the central message of a story?

• The effect of an action

• The cause of an action

• The lesson, moral, or message

• The differences between things

What is an inference?

• A final decision

• What the story is mostly about

• The author's belief

• An educated guess

When thinking about cause and effect, what is cause?

• The lesson, moral, or message in a text

• The reason or why something happened in a text

• An educated guess based on what the author shows but doesn't tell the reader in a text

• The result or what happened in a text

What is Main Idea?

• The solutions to problems in a story

• The steps of actions in a text in the exact order they happen

• What a paragraph or text is mostly about

• The struggle a character faces in a story

What is opinion?

• What a paragraph or text is mostly about

• The solution to a problem in a story

• The lesson, moral, or message of a story

• The author's belief about a topic

When an author show's but doesn't directly tell the reader about something, then the reader must ____

• draw a conclusion

• form an opinion

• make an inference

• determine the cause

When a reader uses the strategy of

*looking for the advice that a wiser character gives to a struggling character

they are trying to

• find the central message

• find the main character's feelings

• find a character's traits

• make an inference

When a reader uses the strategy of

*looking for the result or what happened in a text

they are

• comparing and contrasting

• finding the effect

• finding the central message

• finding the cause

When a reader uses the strategy of

*thinking about how things are the same

*uses word clues such as same, both, similar, comparison

they are

• finding the sequence of events

• finding cause and effect

• making an inference

• comparing

When a reader

*looks for repeating words, synonyms, or asks themselves, "What is this text mostly about?"

they are

• summarizing a story

• looking for the main idea

• drawing a conclusion

• finding and opinion