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| Context clues | words and sentences around a word you don't know |
| summary | what a selection or paragraph is mostly about from beginning to end |
| Drawing conclusions | making an educated guess about a topic |
| cause | the reason or why something happens |
| effect | what happened because of a cause |
| Main idea | the most important idea baout a topic;What's the BIg deal about the topic |
| Analogy | aset of words that reflect relationships.Both pairs of words show the same relationship |
| Sequence | the order of events in a story or steps in a process |
| fact | a statement that can be proven |
| opinion | a statement that reflects someone's feeling or thoughts.It cannot be proven |
| Literary elements | the elements that make up the parts of a fiction story's plot |
| Author's purpose | author's intention for writing;to entertain. inform, persuade |
| generalization | a general and broad conclusion made about a group |
| characters | people in a story |
| setting | time and place in the story |
| conflict | problem characters deal with in a story |
| rising action | events leading to the climax of a story |
| climax | the turning point of a story |
| falling action | events after the climax to the end of the story |
| resolution | how the conflict is solved in the story |
| conclusion | events in a story that reflect the end |
| inference | an educated guess based on personal knowledge and facts given usually about a person |
