Reading Strategies
This is a reading strategy that has you making notes on the text in order to actively read and engage with the text. The text is talking to you, and you...
What is "talk back to the text"
This fiction text structure usually has a character list at the very beginning and gives you character actions as well as dialogue
What is drama
Is given away by the words "I" and "my", and is when we see through the characters perspective.
First person point of view
This text structure provides the reader with information about something that is wrong, then gives information about what is being done to help.
What is Problem and Solution
This is why the author chose to write what they did
What is author's purpose?
This is when you pause after a certain amount of text, and write a little bit about what the main idea of that specific part was.
This fiction text structure segments groups of sentences into paragraphs. What we read most often.
What is Prose
"I walked through the door and felt a sense of anxiety" is written in which point of view
What is first person point of view?
This text structure is when the author gives information about something that directly leads to another thing happening.
What is Cause and Effect
Parts of a piece of writing that help us better understand it. Titles, headings, and pictures are all examples of this.
What are text features
This is when you make note of moments in which we learn about how the character acts throughout the story
What is Character trait tracking
This fiction text structure often relies heavily on rhythm and figurative language to express its theme.
What is poetry
This is when we are aware of one characters thoughts, but that character is not the narrator. Uses words like "he", "she", "they".
What is third person limited
This text structure is when the author puts a series of events in the order that they happened.
What is Chronological
This genre takes place in the past but could have actually happened.
This is when I read through the whole passage before looking at the questions so that I can understand what the passage is about.
What is reading for the gist?
This is a way of identifying the theme in a drama.
This is when we are aware of multiple characters thoughts and feelings, but none of those characters are the narrator.
What is third person omniscient?
This text structure is when the author talks about the characteristics of two things in order to better understand how they are the same and different.
These are the 3 main ways that an author may try to persuade you.
What is logic, emotion, and credibility?
This is where I can look for the theme in the story, because I know the author usually puts them here
What is the beginning and end of the story?
This fiction text structure has the most flexible visual structure out of all 3.
What is poetry
This is when the author or narrator is talking directly to the reader, emphasized by words like "you"
What is second person point of view?
This text structure give information and details on a topic. Is often the last resort when classifying non-fiction text structures.
What is Descriptive
This was the name of the character at the beginning of the year that helped us read for longer amounts of time.
Who was Stamina Bob?