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Question Vocabulary
Words used in comprehenion questions
Question | Answer |
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Who | asking about a person/character |
What | for things |
Which | for things |
When | for time |
Where | for place |
How | more details |
Main Idea | The most important thing in a story that tells us what the story is about. |
Author’s Purpose | is either to entertain or inform |
Primary Purpose | most important and emphasized point of the passage |
Title | the heading that would be most suitable for the passage |
Inferencing | the indirect conclusions of the passage. They are not directly stated in the passage. What do you THINK happen? |
Summarize | write about the main points of the passage |
Supporting details | specific details in the story that help us understand the main idea. |
Theme | An idea that goes through the whole story. |
Evidence | details from the story that support our ideas |