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Flashcard 1: What are key details in a text?
Answer: Important facts that support the main idea. Key details provide evidence for the central message.
Flashcard 2: Which question best helps you find the main idea: "Who?", "What is this mostly about?", or "When?"
Answer: "What is this mostly about?". This question directly targets the central topic.
Flashcard 3: What is the main idea of a text section?
Answer: What the section is mostly about. The main idea captures the central topic or message.
Flashcard 4: Which strategy best matches reading with purpose: read random pages or look for information you need?
Answer: Look for the information you need. Purposeful reading targets specific information.
Flashcard 5: Which action best helps you understand a hard page: skip it, read faster, or reread slowly?
Answer: Reread slowly. Slower reading improves comprehension of difficult text.
Flashcard 6: What does it mean to monitor your comprehension while reading?
Answer: To check that the text makes sense as you read. Monitoring means actively checking your understanding.
Flashcard 7: Identify the best fix if you read a word wrong and the sentence stops making sense.
Answer: Go back and read the word again correctly. Correcting misread words restores sentence meaning.
Flashcard 8: What should you do if a sentence does not make sense while you read?
Answer: Stop, reread, and fix the confusing part. Good readers pause to clarify confusion before continuing.
Flashcard 9: What is one clear sign you are reading with understanding while you read?
Answer: You can tell what is happening and why it is happening. Understanding means grasping both events and their causes.
Flashcard 10: Which purpose matches reading a science page: to be entertained, informed, or to do something?
Answer: To be informed (learn facts). Science texts teach factual information about the world.
Flashcard 11: Which purpose matches reading a funny story: to be entertained, informed, or to do something?
Answer: To be entertained. Funny stories are meant to amuse and bring joy to readers.
Flashcard 12: Which purpose matches reading a recipe: to be entertained, informed, or to do something?
Answer: To do something (follow steps to make food). Recipes provide instructions for actions to complete.
Flashcard 13: What should you do first to set a purpose before reading a passage?
Answer: Decide what you want to learn or find out from the text. Setting a purpose helps focus your reading on specific goals.
Flashcard 14: What are context clues?
Answer: Words around an unknown word that help you figure it out. Surrounding words provide meaning through context.
Flashcard 15: What should you do to understand an unknown word: ignore it, use context clues, or stop reading forever?
Answer: Use context clues. Context clues help decode unfamiliar vocabulary.
Flashcard 16: What is the meaning of the word "reread"?
Answer: Read again. The prefix "re-" means to do something again.
Flashcard 17: Which order words help you retell events correctly: "first, next, last" or "maybe, also, anyway"?
Answer: "First, next, last.". These transition words show chronological sequence.
Flashcard 18: What does it mean to retell a story in order?
Answer: Tell the events from beginning, middle, to end. Retelling in order shows comprehension of sequence.
Flashcard 19: Which detail is most important: a small extra fact or a fact that explains the main idea?
Answer: A fact that explains the main idea. Important details directly connect to the main idea.
Flashcard 20: Which purpose best fits this task: "Read a story because it is fun"?
Answer: Read for enjoyment. Reading for fun is a valid purpose that motivates engagement.
Flashcard 21: What does it mean to read with understanding?
Answer: To know what the text says and what it means. Comprehension means grasping both literal content and meaning.
Flashcard 22: What does it mean to read with purpose?
Answer: To read with a clear goal, such as learning, enjoying, or finding facts. Having a goal helps you focus and remember what you read.
Flashcard 23: Identify the best question to set a purpose before reading an article about frogs.
Answer: What can I learn about frogs from this text. This question focuses on learning, matching the informational text.
Flashcard 24: What is the main idea of a text?
Answer: What the text is mostly about. The main idea is the central topic or message of the text.
Flashcard 25: Which detail is most important to remember when your purpose is to learn the main idea?
Answer: A detail that supports what the text is mostly about. Main idea details are more important than minor facts.
Flashcard 26: Identify the best fix if you read a word wrong and the sentence sounds strange.
Answer: Go back and read the word again correctly. Fixing errors immediately prevents confusion from building up.
Flashcard 27: What is self-monitoring when reading?
Answer: Checking that the words and meaning make sense. Good readers constantly check their own comprehension.
Flashcard 28: What should you do to keep understanding when a page has many new words?
Answer: Slow down and reread difficult parts. Slowing down gives your brain time to process new vocabulary.
Flashcard 29: Which strategy best helps when you forget what happened in the last paragraph?
Answer: Reread the last paragraph. Going back helps reconnect with lost information.
Flashcard 30: Which action best matches this purpose: "Read to follow directions for a game"?
Answer: Read carefully and in order, without skipping steps. Following directions requires sequential, careful reading.