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Enhance your reading comprehension with in-depth exploration of characters, themes, and literary elements. Practice predicting outcomes, drawing conclusions, and identifying main ideas with this comprehensive guide. Develop critical thinking skills with strategies like analyzing fact and opinion, cause and effect, and making predictions.
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EOG VOcabulary READING
Character Who or what the details in a selection are mainly about.
Analyze to study something carefully
Fact and Opinion f- something that can be proven o- can not be proven
Intended Audience who the selection is written for
Cause and Effect C- what makes something happen e- what happens
Predicting Outcomes what would happen next
Drawing Conclusions what do you know, what can you infer, what can you conclude
Hyperbole an exaggeration
Author's Craft what the author is good at; like figurative language
Specific Detail a fact from the selection
Sequencing order of events
Plot problem and solution of selection
Personification giving animals and objects human-like traits
Skim when you read quickly through the story looking for general information and main ideas
Setting time and place
Figurative Language five types of descriptive phrases
Reference Source gives you more information on the topic
Strategy plan used in reading; like skim, scan, reread
Indirect Characterization something not directly stated about the character
Direct Characterization something you can put your finger on about the character
Point of View who is telling the selection
Context Clues look at the sentence before it, it's in and after it to find out the meaning of difficult words
Onomatopoeia sound words
Genre type of story
Metaphor comparing without using like or as
Prefix comes before the word; like reread
Propaganda techniques used to persuade
Author's Purpose to entertain, to inform, or persuade
Graphics *, pictures, diagrams, bold print, italics, etc...
Scan aha...you can put your finger on it
Judgment opinion
Mood how the selection makes you feel
Suffix comes after the word; like reader
Compare and Contrast finding what is alike and different
Main Idea what the selection is about (say it in a sentence!)
Supporting Detail a fact from the selection (put them together to get the main idea)
Make a prediction what you think would most likely happen next
Infer to draw conclusions based on what the author tells you
Theme moral or lesson of selection
Genre type of story
Fiction not real (fiction is fake)
Nonfiction real (non-fiction is no-foolin!)
Simile comparing using like or as
Metaphor comparing using is
Atlas A book of maps
Magazine A book of interesting articles
Encyclopedia A book of information
Newspaper A resource for current events