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| Connecting | making the reading mean something to my own life, the world around me, or something else I have read. |
| Prior Knowledge | Taking what I already know to help me understand something new. |
| Reader's purpose | Deciding why I am reading, and what I hope to get from it. |
| Author's purpose | Why the story was written. Persuade, Inform, Entertain. |
| Main Idea | This is the central and most important idea of a reading passage. |
| Context Clues | These are in the text surrounding a word and give hints for the meaning of the word. |
| Fact | This is a statement that can be proved to be true. |
| Implied Meaning | This is a suggested, but not stated, definition. |
| Inference | This is reading between the lines. It is taking something that you read and putting it together with something that you already know to make sense of what you read. |
| Opinion | This is a statement that reflects a writer's belief about a topic , and it cannot be proved. |
| Paraphrase | This is the restatement of a written work in one's own words that keeps the basic meaning of the original work. |
| Style | This is the way an author expresses ideas through the use of kinds of words, literary devices, and sentence structure. |
| Cultural Reference | This is the use of a custom or belief that is not shared by everyone |
| Supporting Details | These are examples that prove the main idea |
| purpose | the reason why an author writes a piece |
| description | a kind of writing that is intended to create a mood or emotion, or to recreate a person, place, thing, or event |
| narration | a kind of writing that tells a story |
| persuasion | a kind of writing that tries to convince the reader to act or think in a certain way |
| stereotype | a fixed concept or idea of a person that does not allow for any individuality; for example, all old people drive slowly and smell funny |
| imagery | language that appeals to the senses |
| excerpt | a small piece taken from a larger piece |
| Bias | prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair |
| Footnote | A piece of information printed at the bottom of a text |
| Citation | Reference to the source of information |
