Anchor Lesson Vocabulary
| Main Idea- what a text is mostly about |
| Supporting details-bits of information that verify and support main idea |
| Text connection- connection that readers make to the schema they have, another book, or the world |
| Conclusion-a decision or opinion about something |
| Genre- a distinctive category of literary composition- type of book |
| Get the Gist- Strategy used to help identify the main idea |
| Inference- act of inferring or getting a conclusion from facts |
| Theme- a broad idea, message or lesson conveyed by a book |
| Schema- background or prior knowledge, experiences or things in your life that make up who you are and what you think |
| Author’s purpose- the reason for writing |
| Audience- the readers for whom the author writes a text |
| Detail- major and minor, tell Who? What? When? Where? How? And Why? |
| Focus- the theme, controlling idea or main point of a text |
| Determining Importance- separating the unimportant details from the important details in a text |
| Topic- subject of the text |
| Text structure-pattern author uses to structure ideas- sequencing, compare and contrast, cause-effect, problem solution |