Reading Definition

Main Idea: The central or most important, idea in a paragraph or passage. It may also be described as the controlling idea, and, as such, it set the direction of the paragraph or article.

Supporting Details: Facts and secondary ideas that an author uses to develop and support and main idea

Context Clues: includes the sentence, paragraph, or passage that surround a word and make it meaningful.

Author's Purpose: The reason or intant in writing

Author's Overall Organizational Pattern: Authors try to present their ideas in some clearly organized way. They do this by arranging the supporting details in some common pattern.

Facts and Opinion: A fact is a statement that can be validated or proven to be true or false by using measurements, historical or scientific documents, or even personal observation. By this definition, a fact is not always accurates or correct.
An opinion is a statement that expresses an author's beliefs, judgements, and values. It expressed a point of view and cannot be proven.

Bias: Is a predispostion, prejudice, or prejudgment; bias may be in favor of or against something or someone.

Tone: An author's toneis the attitude or feeling he creates in writnig about his subject, the reader can recognize a mood or feeling in written material in the same way as he would recognize a mood or feeling from a speaker's tone of voice.

Relationship Within Sentences: Sentences comprehension may involve recognizing the relationship between parts of a sentence.
If the relationship within the sentence is explicit (stated), transition words and phrased will be used.
If the relationship within the sentence is implicit (unstated), the reader must infer the relationship.
This skill is related to identifying the author's overall organizational pattern. Some of the same patterns and transitions learned in recognizing organizational patterns will be useful in recognizing relationship within sentences.
Some types of relationships, along with transitions that help identify them, are:
Addition- again, also, and, besides, further, furthermore in addition, moreover
Clarification- as a matter of fact, clearly, evidently, in fact, in other worda obviously, of course.

Relationship Between Sentences: Paragraph and passage comprehension is improved by recognizing how one sentence relates to another sentence; such relationship may be explicit (stated) or implicit (unstated)
The same signal words and transitions are used as are found in working with relationship withinn sentences.

Valid Arguments: An argument involves reasons or evidence to support a conclusion or statement.

Inference and Conclusion: an inference is what a reader think the writer is suggesting through the words or ideas presented.