What does it mean to summarize?

To express important components

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Answers

1
What does it mean to support an answer?
To summarize briefly
To ignore evidence
To make a guess
To justify with evidence
2
What does it mean to justify?
To provide a good reason
To make a guess
To read between lines
To summarize briefly
3
True or false: Summarizing means to express all details.
False
True
4
True or false: Justifying an answer requires no evidence.
False
True
5
What does it mean to read between the lines?
To summarize the text
To evaluate the author
To find hidden meaning
To ignore the text
6
What does it mean to persuade?
To convince someone
To evaluate a text
To summarize information
To confuse someone
7
What is predicting?
A theme of the story
An educated guess
A detailed summary
A random thought
8
What is a theme in a story?
A plot twist
The message of the story
A setting description
The main character
9
True or false: The theme is always obvious in a story.
True
False
10
What is the main idea?
A minor detail
The central idea
The author's opinion
A supporting fact
11
What does it mean to evaluate?
To make a judgement
To make a guess
To read between lines
To summarize information
12
What is the role of evidence in supporting an answer?
To back up your answer
To summarize the text
To confuse the reader
To make a guess
13
What does it mean to summarize?
To express all details
To express important components
To evaluate a text
To persuade someone
14
What does it mean to infer?
To figure out using evidence
To persuade someone
To summarize a text
To guess randomly
15
What is the purpose of interpreting?
To find meaning from clues
To summarize details
To justify an opinion
To make a guess
16
What is the difference between theme and main idea?
Theme is a message
Theme is a summary
Main idea is a detail
They are the same

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Academic Vocabulary Test Taking Words

16 termsStudBud Administration43 plays

Test your understanding of key reading comprehension skills with these quiz questions

Flashcards16 cardsFPractice quizPHost liveL

Questions 16

Answers

1
What does it mean to support an answer?
To summarize briefly
To ignore evidence
To make a guess
To justify with evidence
2
What does it mean to justify?
To provide a good reason
To make a guess
To read between lines
To summarize briefly
3
True or false: Summarizing means to express all details.
False
True
4
True or false: Justifying an answer requires no evidence.
False
True
5
What does it mean to read between the lines?
To summarize the text
To evaluate the author
To find hidden meaning
To ignore the text
6
What does it mean to persuade?
To convince someone
To evaluate a text
To summarize information
To confuse someone
7
What is predicting?
A theme of the story
An educated guess
A detailed summary
A random thought
8
What is a theme in a story?
A plot twist
The message of the story
A setting description
The main character
9
True or false: The theme is always obvious in a story.
True
False
10
What is the main idea?
A minor detail
The central idea
The author's opinion
A supporting fact
11
What does it mean to evaluate?
To make a judgement
To make a guess
To read between lines
To summarize information
12
What is the role of evidence in supporting an answer?
To back up your answer
To summarize the text
To confuse the reader
To make a guess
13
What does it mean to summarize?
To express all details
To express important components
To evaluate a text
To persuade someone
14
What does it mean to infer?
To figure out using evidence
To persuade someone
To summarize a text
To guess randomly
15
What is the purpose of interpreting?
To find meaning from clues
To summarize details
To justify an opinion
To make a guess
16
What is the difference between theme and main idea?
Theme is a message
Theme is a summary
Main idea is a detail
They are the same