| Term | Definition |
|---|
| scanning | to analyze, read, or recite, glance from point to point of often hastily, casually, or in search of a particular item |
| skimming | look over a whole page |
| Reading intensively | thuroughly looking through a story or an essay |
| speculation | a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence) |
| essay | an analytic or interpretive literary composition |
| main idea | the central thought or message |
| autoboigraphy | story of a person's life written by that person |
| biography | A written account of one's life, actions, and character. |
| scientific method | a method of investigation involving observation and theory to test scientific hypotheses |
| reporter's questions | who, what, when, where, why |
| persuasive essay | presents arguements and tries to convince readers to adopt a certain point of view |
| descriptive essay | author describes events and feelings by including images and details showing how things look, sound, smell, taste, or feel (5 senses) |
| fact | a piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred |
| opinion | a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty |
| subjective detail | A detail that has to do with personal experience rather than some objective reality |
| objective detail | a detail that has an existing independance of any particular person's attitude, ideas, or beliefs |
| narrative essay | tells about real life events using elements of storylife |
| expository essay | presents or explains information or ideas in a formal format |
| cause and effect | how one event leads to another |
| journal writing | a way of recording events as they happen |
| observing | Is using one or more of your senses - sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch to gather information about the world. |
| inferring | Is explaining or interpreting an observation or statement reasonable or unreasonable. |
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