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| literal question | Question type that has an answer that can be found directly in the passage. These are "no brainer" type questions and can be found by scanning for key words in passage. |
| inferential question | Type of question found most often on the TAKS test. Is not directly stated in the passage, but makes sense from information gotten from the passage. This is a "reading detective" question and requires higher level thinking. |
| setting | This type of question is looking for the "time, place and mood" at the beginning of a story. May be stated directly or only give "clues". Be ready to tell "why" or "how" this is important to the passage. |
| time | This may be stately directly or only hinted, but is usually shown as daily, seasonal, yearly or when an event is occurring. Be ready to tell "how" or "why" this would be important to the passage. |
| place | This is the location at the beginning of a story. May be stated directly or may give only hints. |
| problem/conflict | Usually a struggle/decision to be worked out. Can man vs. man, man vs. himself, or man vs.nature. |
| infer/inference | This is using the "hints" or "clues" in a story to get the "gist" of what is happening in a story. |
| Conclusion | The result of an event or ending of the story. |
| Cause | An event/person that makes something else happen. |
| Effect | The resulting event that was caused. For example, striking a matching causes the "effect" of fire. |
| Character | A person, animal or object that is the focus of a passage. |
| Solution/resolution | The answer to a problem/conflict. |
| similarity/comparison | This means how two things are alike. |
| difference/contrast | This means how two things are different. |
| graphic organizer | A type of graph or chart (using boxes, lines and/or circles) that arranges or represents key information in an visually usable way. For example, K-W-L chart, Venn Diagram, T-chart, a newspaper advertisement and Plot Summary chart are all examples of this. |
| Author's purpose of the passage | To decide "why" the writer wrote the passage. This is usually one or more of the following: *to entertain, *to give information about a subject or *to convince or persuade the reader to act or believe a certain way. |
| Word meaning | This type of question will ask what the underlined word means in the passage. The reader will have to look for clues in sentence before, the one with the word and the sentence after to get the "context" to determine meaning. |
| Sequence | This is putting the events in the passage in time order. |
| Point-of-view | This type of question is asking about who tells the story and how that might affect the passage. |
| Prediction | This is asking for the reader to what will probably happen next in the passage. |
| Summary/summarize | The type of question is asking for 1 to 3 sentences giving details including something from the beginnning, middle and ending of the passage that covers the story. This is similar, but longer than a main idea. |
| Main idea | This is usually about 10 words giving "who" "did what" in the passage. This should cover the whole passage, not just one event. |
| Fiction/Fantasy | Based on events that couldn't or haven't really happened. |
| Nonfiction/Reality | Based on people, facts and events that are true and proveable. |
| Biography | A story that tells about the true events of a person's life. |
| Autobiography | The author writes his/her own life story. |
| Propaganda | This is information that may or may not be true, but is written to persuade the reader to act or believe a certain way. |
| Fairytale | Type of story that usually includes elements of magic and a moral. Many have been passed down through the generations before being written down. Example - "Little Red Riding Hood" |
| Folktale/Myth/Legend | This is usually a type of fictional story that "explains how or why something came to be". |
| Fable | This type of short, fictional story usually has "animal" characters that teach a certain wise "moral" lesson. An example would be "The Tortoise and the Hare". |
