ATI TEAS V6: Reading Section
Study Guide
Key Ideas & Details Definitions
• Summarize: Accurately define main idea and lay out most important
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• Paraphrase: Rephrasing into your own words
• Logical Conclusion: Combine information given by the text with what you already know.
• Inference: Information is implied but not outright written by the author; conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.
• Topics: Word or phrase that everything refers back to. Look for repeated words or phrases.
• Main Idea: Most important point being made. Usually at the beginning of the paragraph but that is not the case ALL THE TIME. Figure out topic then look for the sentence that states a main point about the topic.
• Summary Sentence: At the beginning and prepares the reader for what is to come.
• Purpose: Identifying the authors position
Craft & Structure Definitions
• Fact: Information that can be proven or disproved. Authors doesn’t reveal personal feelings and if passage contains numbers, most likely will be a fact.
• Opinions: Authors personal feelings or thoughts. Usually contain 1 viewpoint. Some opinion words include believe, think, feel, should, best ,seems, most, good, better, or worst
• Stereotype: Preconceived sweeping conclusion about an individual or an entire group of people that can be either good or bad.
• Biases: A person preference; Author is typically unfair and inaccurate in his/her presentation.
• Descriptive Text: Focuses on particular subject and attempts to depict the subject in a way that will be clear to the readers. Contains adjectives and adverbs. Most likely will be informative, persuasive, and entertaining as well.
• Compare & Contrast:
o Compare: Author describes the ways to things are alike.
o Contrast: Author describes the ways two things are different.
• Cause & Effect:
o Cause: Act or event that makes something happen
o Effect: The thing that happens as a result of the cause
• Narrative Passage: Tells a story (fiction or nonfiction) Must a have plot (series of events), characters, and figurative language. Ex: Personal Story, Works of Fiction, and Narratives
o Purpose: Always to Entertain
• Expository Passage: Aims to inform or enlighten readers. Passage is nonfiction. Also, contains helpful organizing words like first, next, for example and, therefore. Scan for numbers, world history or any historical context indicates its expository.
o Purpose: To inform; can find this type in an Encyclopedia
• Persuasive Passage: To change the mind of the readers. Appeal to readers emotions and are very opinionated. Display bias.
o Purpose: To persuade
• Metaphor: A type of figurative language that the writer equates one thing with a different thing.
• Simile: Comparing two items using LIKE or AS
• Personification: Giving human traits to nonliving things
• Dictionary: Used to look up meanings of words
• Thesaurus: Book of words that have similar meanings; Book of synonyms
• Appendix: Supplemental information that appears in the back of many books that includes additional information related specifically to the text.
• Almanac: Book/calendar that includes information regarding weather, water tide levels, and phases of the moon.
• Index: Located in the back of the book and includes page number.
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Integration of Knowledge & Ideas Definitions
• Primary Sources: Closest evidence to the subject being study: Credible
o Ex: Autobiographies, Diaries, Interviews, Etc
• Secondary Sources: Created by someone who did not experience first-hand
o Ex: academic books, journal articles, reviews, essays, and textbooks [Show Less]