Reading comprehension OAR
Main idea - answer Describes authors main topic and general concept
Generalizes the author's point of view about a subject
Topic - answer Overall subject matter of a passage
Theme - answer Generally true idea that the reader might derive from a text
Fiction/nonfiction - answer Fiction: Theme
Nonfiction: Main idea
Topic sentence - answerFirst, or very near the first, sentence in paragraph
General statement that introduces the topic, clearly and specifically directing the reader
to access any previous experience with the topic
Summary sentence - answerComes at the end of a paragraph because it wraps up all
the ideas presented
Provides understanding of what the author wants to say about the topic and what
conclusions to draw about it
Supporting details - answerBetween topic and summary sentence
Support the main idea
Signal words - answerTransitions and conjunctions: explain to the reader how one
sentence or idea is connected to another
Common signal words: particular, in addition, besides, contrastingly, therefore, and
because
Fact - answerPiece of information that can be verified as true or false
retains the quality of truthfulness or falsity no matter who verifies it
Opinion - answerReflects a belief held by the author and may or may not be something
each reader agrees with
Inference - answerAn assumption the reader makes based on details in the text as well
as his or her own knowledge
Educated guess
Authors purpose - answerDetermined by asking why the author wants the reader to
understand the passage's main idea
4 types: Narrative, expository technical, persuasive
Main idea - answer Describes authors main topic and general concept
Generalizes the author's point of view about a subject
Topic - answer Overall subject matter of a passage
Theme - answer Generally true idea that the reader might derive from a text
Fiction/nonfiction - answer Fiction: Theme
Nonfiction: Main idea
Topic sentence - answerFirst, or very near the first, sentence in paragraph
General statement that introduces the topic, clearly and specifically directing the reader
to access any previous experience with the topic
Summary sentence - answerComes at the end of a paragraph because it wraps up all
the ideas presented
Provides understanding of what the author wants to say about the topic and what
conclusions to draw about it
Supporting details - answerBetween topic and summary sentence
Support the main idea
Signal words - answerTransitions and conjunctions: explain to the reader how one
sentence or idea is connected to another
Common signal words: particular, in addition, besides, contrastingly, therefore, and
because
Fact - answerPiece of information that can be verified as true or false
retains the quality of truthfulness or falsity no matter who verifies it
Opinion - answerReflects a belief held by the author and may or may not be something
each reader agrees with
Inference - answerAn assumption the reader makes based on details in the text as well
as his or her own knowledge
Educated guess
Authors purpose - answerDetermined by asking why the author wants the reader to
understand the passage's main idea
4 types: Narrative, expository technical, persuasive
