Fact vs. Opinion
Separate checkable claims from what someone thinks or prefers.
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Teach the reading skill your class needs next.
The Milestone Reading Skills Program is a new collection of printable units for grades 3–5. Start with one skill, then use real student pages to decide what fits your students.
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Character Traits
Use what a character says and does to support a trait.
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Making Inferences
Combine a text clue with what readers already know.
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Main Idea & Supporting Details
Name what a passage is mostly about and find the details that support it.
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Cause & Effect
Explain what happened and why, using the passage.
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Citing Text Evidence
Choose the part of a text that actually supports an answer.
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Theme & Central Message
Find a story's theme from how the main character changes, and tell a theme from a topic or a retelling.
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Author's Purpose
Name an author's main purpose (persuade, inform or entertain) and prove it with a clue from the text.
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Point of View
Tell whether a story is told in first or third person, even when a speaker says “I”.
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Synonyms & Antonyms
Tell synonyms from antonyms, order close synonyms from weakest to strongest, and choose the word that fits the sentence.
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Summarizing
Choose what belongs in a summary, retell a story in order with Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then, and summarize nonfiction.
Pronouns: Subject & Object
Name a pronoun's job, choose subject and object forms, and make each pronoun point clearly to its noun.
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Compare & Contrast
Tell how two versions of a tale, or two texts on one topic, are alike and different, treating clue words as clues, not rules.
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Prefixes & Suffixes
Find a real prefix or suffix on a real base word, tell it from a lookalike, and check the new meaning in the sentence.
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Free Reading Skills Quick Check
Read one passage and score seven answers in your browser to spot a possible next teaching step. Open the free online Quick Check. The separate printable PDF is in final page review.
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