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Question Vocabulary
Words used in comprehenion questions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |