The ReadQuest cast
Each friend shows you one idea by how they act. Meet them all and see how the ideas fit together.
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Crest Main idea / central message (the *peak* of the passage) -
Hunch Inference (reading between the lines) -
Anchor Evidence / textual citation -
Plume Author's purpose / voice / tone -
Frame Text structure (compare-contrast, sequence, cause-effect, problem-solution, description) -
Pith Vocabulary in context (deriving word meaning from surrounding text) -
Yonder Predicting — alert young-hare creature who reads the trail's clues to guess what's around the bend; a wrong guess just means the story surprised you -
Vista Visualizing — dreamy young-deer creature who turns words into a movie in the mind; the writer gives the words, the reader gives the pictures -
Nettle Questioning the text — question-quilled hedgehog who pokes a passage with why/how/what-if; asking questions means you're awake, not that you don't understand -
Sheaf Summarizing — warm-handed harvester who gathers a whole passage into one tidy armful, keeping the important middle and letting loose details fall