Reading Comprehension: Reading And Language Arts Terms Explained

Plain-language definitions of every reading comprehension term your child meets in school, each with kid-friendly explanations, worked examples, and common mistakes to watch for.

Paraphrase

A paraphrase is a restatement of someone else's ideas in new words and sentence structure that keep the original meaning but do not copy the exact wording.

Prediction

A prediction is a smart guess about what will happen next in a text, based on clues from the story or article and what the reader already knows.

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