Question | Answer |
A statement or piece of information that can be verified and proven to be true. | fact |
expresses a person's viewpoint and tells what the person feels, thinks, or believes | opinion |
consists of ideas or facts that are important and worth using-related to the topic | essential information |
consists of ideas, examples, anecdotes, and other details that are not directly connected to the main idea | nonessential information |
what he author is trying to accomplish through the writing - 4 basic purposes - inform, explain, entertain, and persuade | author's purpose |
strong feelings about a subject - writing that is slanted toward a particular opinion | bias |
biased or slanted information that is spread in order to influence the way a large group of people think and behave | propaganda |
to "read between the lines" to make connections using clues in the text and your personal knowledge and experience to draw reasonable conclusions about the meaning of the text | inferences |
the order in which events happen in a story | chronological order |
description used to help readers visualize someone or something in a story | spatial order |
one event takes place because of another | cause / effect |
similarities and differences between two things | comparision / contrast |
the most important information first, followed by the least or the least important information to the most important information | order of importance |
the most important idea about a topic | main idea |
facts, examples, reasons, data, and other ideas that support the main idea | supporting deatails |