Bk:Skills Card

Bk: Skills Card

Comprehension: Support answers with evidence from the text.

Literature Informational Text

1. Using specic details from the

text, describe in depth:

• a major character.

• a minor character.

• the narrator (1st or 3rd

person).

• the setting (time, place,

historical era).

• a key event.

2. Retell the key events of the plot

in chronological sequence.

3. What is the theme of the text?

How do you know?

4. What other things have you read

with a similar theme? How does

this compare?

5. What form (genre) of literature

is this? How do you know?

Describe its basic structural

elements.

6. Tell the author’s main idea in one sentence.

7. List the key facts and ideas that support the

author’s main idea.

8. Summarize the information presented.

Tell exactly what happened and why. Use

specic information from the text.

9. What do you think is your author’s opinion or

perspective on this material? How is it dierent

from yours?

10. How did the author organize the information

(e.g., chronological order, compare/contrast,

pro/con, cause/eect, problem/solution,

exposition)?

11. Was this a rsthand or secondhand

account? How do you know?

12. Explain one of the graphic features in

the text (charts, graphs, diagrams, time

lines, maps, tables) and describe how the

information adds to the rest of the text.

Range of Reading

1. Complete a chapter book each week.

2. Get hooked on a series or author and go on a reading binge.

3. Read for an hour a day, including 30 minutes at home without anyone reminding you.

4. Read biography, contemporary ction, traditional tales, poetry, drama, science, and history.

5. Read silently, faster than you can talk, but with good understanding.

Reader: Room:

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Vocabulary & Language

• Context Clues: notice new words or phrases and use context clues to hypothesize meaning.

• Synonyms/Antonyms: come up with synonyms/antonyms for words in text.

• Distinguish shades of meaning between potential synonyms (e.g., whispered vs. grumbled).

• Word Parts: use Greek/Latin axes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word.

• Figurative Language: nd an example of gurative language (e.g., simile or

metaphor). Describe its meaning and eect.

Bk: Academic Vocabulary

Use Greek and Latin roots to help you solve unknown words.

anim

aqua,

hydr

ast aud bio cap cycle chron dent graph hydr

life,

spirit

water star hear life head circle time tooth draw,

write

water

mega meter ped phon port photo

ques,

quer,

quis,

quir

scrib

spec,

scope

tele therm

large,

great

measure

foot sound carry light ask write see far o heat

Using Context Clues: How to Figure Out New Words

. Notice a new word. (After trying several different pronunciations, if it still doesn’t

sound familiar...)

. Use what you know and clues in the text to figure out what the new word might

mean.

. Come up with a likely synonym (or a short definition) for the new word that would

make sense.

. Reread the sentence, replacing the new word with your synonym.

. If the meaning of the sentence is unchanged, your synonym is probably correct. If

not, try again.

Unknown Word Greek/Latin Root is word might mean...