CLAST READING REVIEW DEFINITION

1. MAIN IDEAS; the main idea is the central' or most important, idea in a paragraph or passage. it may also be described as the controlling idea and, as such it sets the directionof the paragraph or article.





2. SUPPORTING DETAILS; supporting details are facts and secondary ideas that an authors use to develop and support the main idea.


* supporting detail include definitions, exampleas, reasons, facts, and evidence to support conclusions.


* questions about details may begin with words such as who, what,when,where, and why, or how.


3. CONTEXT CLUES; the context includes the sentence, paragraph, or passage that surround a word and make it meaningful.



4.AUTHOR'S PURPOSE; an author's purpose is his reason or intent in writing.



5.AUTHOR'S OVERALL ORGANIZATIONAL PATTERN; authors try to present their ideas in some clearly organized way. they do this by arranging thae supporting details in some common pattern.



6.FACT AND OPINION; a fact is a statement that can be validated or proven to be true or false by using measurements, historical or scientific documents, or even personal observation. by this definition, a fact is not always accurate or correct.
* an opinion is a statement that expresses an author's beliefs, judgements, and values.it expresses a point of view and cannot be prove.

7.BIAS; bias is predisposition, prejudice, or prejudgement; bias may be in favor of against something or someone.

8.TONE; an author's tone is the attitude or feeling he creates in writing about his subject; the reader can recognize a mood or feeling in written material in the same way as he would recognize a mood or feeling from a speaker's tone of voice.

9.EXPLICIT/IMPLICIT RELATIONSHIPS WITH SENTENCES; the relationship within the sentence is explicit (stated) transition words and phrases will be used.

10.RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SENTENCES; paragraph and passage comprehension is improved by recognizing how one sentence relates to another sentence; such relationships may be explicit (stated) or implicit (unstated)

11. VALID ARGUMENTS; a valid argument is a statemaent that fits into a logical patter of reasoning and/or which makes use of relevant, verifiable proof to support a particular conclusion.

12. INFERENCES AND CONCLUSIONS; an inference is what a reader thinks the writer is suggesting through the words or ideas presented.