Reading comprehension success part 14 pps

117 Reading between the Lines N ow that you’ve studied the way authors use structure and language to organize and express their ideas, you’re ready to tackle more difficult pas- sages: those in which the writers don’t provide clear topic sentences or do not clearly indicate their intentions. To understand this type of text, you have to “read between the lines.” This means you have to really put your observation skills to use and scour the passage for clues to meaning. Like Sherlock Holmes, you will really have to notice what you see. By the end of this section, you should be able to: ■ Determine an implied main idea ■ Determine an implied cause or effect ■ Distinguish between logical and emotional appeals ■ Determine the theme of a piece of literature You’ll look at a variety of texts, including some literature, and then put it all together in a review lesson. . or inference. This lesson focuses on two specific types of implication: reading between the lines to deter- mine cause and reading between the lines to predict effects. In case you need a reminder:. arrived at the garage. He often forgets things, too, like exactly where he parked the car on a particular day or where he put his keys. One time, I found him wandering around the garage looking. his voice to be heard and obeyed. Second, the description of Coach Lerner’s haircut is a critical part of the way the author establishes the tone of this paragraph. To say that he has “the haircut of