Reading Comprehension Review & Assessment In Lesson 48 you will: 1. Review ‘fact and opinion’, ‘inference’, and ‘cause and effect’. 2. Self-assess how you are doing by taking an Assessment Practice.

Review & Assessment What is a ‘fact’?

Review & Assessment What is a ‘fact’? A fact is something that really happened or is true.

Reading Comprehension What is an ‘opinion’? Fact and Opinion An opinion is something that someone believes. It may or may not be based on fact.

Reading Comprehension Fact and Opinion Facts tell about the way things are; opinions tell about how a person thinks or feels.

A cause is what makes something happen. Reading Comprehension Cause and Effect What is ‘cause’?

Reading Comprehension Cause and Effect What is an ‘effect’? An effect happens because of something. (cause)

Reading Comprehension Inference Skills What is an inference?

Reading Comprehension Inference Skills An inference is using what you already know and using that knowledge or experience to draw a conclusion. The information is not directly in the text.

Reading Comprehension Practice Assessment Strategies for answering questions from a passage: 1.Read the questions first before you read the passage. 2.Highlight the key words in the question. What is being asked?

Reading Comprehension Practice Assessment Strategies for answering questions from a passage continued: 3. Find the support in your text passage for your answer and write the question # next to it. 4. Leave an answer blank when you are confused. Go back and try again when you are ready.

Reading Comprehension Practice Assessment PracticePractice Part 1Part 1 Practice Part 2Part 2 Practice Part 3Part 3

Reading is Thinking Practice Read the following passage: Exodus 1:1-14, The Message Respond in your journal on the following: 1.What is the main idea of this passage? (support your opinion by using the text.)

2. Record any CROPQV’s you have. Share a few on the Discussion Forum in Moodle with others taking this course. 3. What happened after Joseph died that changed everything for the Israelites? This is an effect from a cause.

4. On your word bank, add the following words and their definitions from a dictionary: Prolific; hard-labor; foremen Word Bank

Good-Bye, until next time! Thank you for working hard today. Make sure you complete all the assignments for this lesson. The links to the assignments are on Moodle. Keep up your reading! Use the CROPQV to show reading is thinking!