Author's Purpose - Persuade, Inform and Entertain , Context Clues - To use the text to figure out what a word in the text means , Summarizing - To give the central ideas and details from the text using your own words, Expository - Informational text , Claim - What is the author's point of view on the topic, Evidence - What the text states, what are the professionals and statistics saying, Reasons - Elaboration, explanation of why they believe their claim, Plot - sequence of events of a story (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution), Text Structure - how the text is built (problem&solution, description, compare&contrast, chronological, cause&effect), Text features - the parts of the text that standout and also provide more information, Inferences - Conclusion, educated guess based on the text and your schema , Figurative language - when you say one thing, but mean another (can't be taken literal), Connotation - positive or negative feeling from word (skinny vs. scrawny house vs home)  , Denotation  - a word's dictionary meaning , Central idea  - What the whole text is about in one sentence, Story Elements - characters, plot, problem, resolution, theme(moral), Point of view - the author's perspective (1st, 2nd 3rd (objective,limited, omniscient) , Nonrestrictive Elements - The information that is not important in a text that is put between parenthesis, commas, and dashes ,

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