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Reading Strategies

Directions- Match each term with the correct definition.

  • 1. Cause
  • 2. Effect
  • 3. Sequence
  • 4. Summarizing
  • 5. Author's Purpose
  • 6. Main Idea
  • 7. Details
  • a. What happens
  • b. The order in which things are done or events happen
  • c. The reason an author has for writing
  • d. Identifying key ideas in a text and presenting those ideas in a short form
  • e. Support the main idea in a reading selection
  • f. The most important point an author is trying to make
  • g. Why it happens
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Date: ___________________________________

Reading Strategies (Answer Key)

Directions- Match each term with the correct definition.

  • g 1. Cause
  • a 2. Effect
  • b 3. Sequence
  • d 4. Summarizing
  • c 5. Author's Purpose
  • f 6. Main Idea
  • e 7. Details
  • a. What happens
  • b. The order in which things are done or events happen
  • c. The reason an author has for writing
  • d. Identifying key ideas in a text and presenting those ideas in a short form
  • e. Support the main idea in a reading selection
  • f. The most important point an author is trying to make
  • g. Why it happens

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