2nd Quarter

Reading CSA #1
Study Guide
Standard 4.2(B)

Use context clues to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words or

multiple meaning.
Vocabulary:

1.Determine
2. Context

3.Unfamiliar
4. Multiple- meaning

5. Definition
6. Example

7. Paragraph
8. Understand

Standard 4.3 Fig. 19 (D)

Summarize and explain the lesson or message of a work of fiction as its

theme.
Making inferences using text evidence to
support understanding

Vocabulary:
1. Summarize
2. Explain
3. Make inferences
4. Support
5. Lesson
6. Message
7. Work
8. Fiction
9. Theme
10. Use
Standard 4.6(A)

Sequence and summarize the plots main events and explain their
influence on future events.

1. sequence
2. summarize
3. plot
4. main event
5. future event
6. influence
Standard 4.6 (B) Changes in Character Relationships
1. Describe
2. Interaction
3. Characters
4. Relationships
5. Undergo
6. Actions
7. Conclude
8. Suggest

Sentence Stems:
1. Which sentence best suggests _____?
2. What can the reader conclude from ______?
3. The reader can conclude that the character _______.
4. The reader can conclude from the information in _____.
5. Why does the author begin the piece (in a particular way)?
6. In the last sentence in paragraph ______, the reader can infer that
the _______ the author refers to are ______.
7. The author uses sentence (a sentence from the passage) to
_______.
8. From the information in the selection, the reader can conclude
that _______.
9. What can the reader conclude from the character?
10. What can the reader conclude from the section _____?
11. The author uses the sentence to ______.
12. Why does the author include the boxed information?
13. By saying ______ in paragraph _____, the author implies that _____.
14. What does _______ reveal to the reader?
15. The information in _____ indicates ______.

*The students will be bringing home their Reading Composition Notebooks to

help them review the information from class.*