| A | B |
|---|
| Main Idea | What the story is mostly about |
| Theme | A message or lesson the author wants to share |
| Context Clues | Figuring out the meaning of a word by looking at other words around it |
| Strategy | Plan of attack, how to go about doing something |
| Paraphrase | Restating the ideas in your own words |
| Clarify | To make the difficult ideas more clear |
| Predict | Making guesses about something in the future based on what you know now & supported by evidence from the selection |
| Evaluate | Judging the quality of the author's work |
| Dialect | A variety of language spoken by a certain group of people |
| Emphasize | Special types of print used by authors to help stress words |
| Generalization | A broad statement that applies to more than one specific situation |
| Significant | A word that means "importance" or "meaningful" |
| Thesaurus | A book that lists words with similar meanings |
| Glossary | A section of a book that gives the meaning of words used in the book |
| Climax | Main event in a story in which the problem can be solved or accepted as unable to be solved |
| Conflict | The type of problem in the story |
| Dictionary | A book filled with definitions and other important facts about words (terms) |
| Almanac | A book published every year that contains up to date facts about all kinds of topics |
| Conclusion | A decision reached after using inferences |
| Inference | A decision reached after learning facts and information about other people and actions |
| Atlas | A book of maps |
| Compare | How things are alike |
| Contrast | How things are different |
