How to Solve
Before Reading Strategies
During Reading Strategies
Text Features
Author's Purpose
100
Look at the diagram below. 1) Mom comes into Judy's room. 2) Judy says she has the mumps. 3) ________________________. 4) Mom takes Judy's temperature. Which event belongs in the blank space? a) Judy puts a cough drop in her mouth. b) Stink knocks on Judy's door. c) Judy makes a promise to Mom. d) Mom tells Judy to get dressed for school.
What is go back into the passage and find what happened 1st and 3rd in the sequence of events. Circle the area in between the two events. Find a, b, c, and d in the story. Which ever answer happens in between events 1 and 3 will be your answer?
100
What should you do to the title of the passage?
What is read and circle the title?
100
Explain the "title it" strategy.
What is think about the main idea of each paragraph and give each paragraph a "title" using 5 or less words? (Do this strategy whenever reading an Informational article.)
100
What is the purpose of headings in bold print?
What is to give clues about what information is in each section?
100
A biography or autobiography
What is to tell the reader about that person's life?
200
Which sentence best shows that Judy is upset with her brother? a) b) c) (italicized answer choices) d)
What is write "Does this show me" above the question. Read each answer choice and ask yourself, "Does this show me that Judy is upset with her brother?" If the answer is "YES," then that is your answer. If the answer is "NO," then it is not your answer.
200
What should you be noting as you scan through the passage?
What are text features?
200
What should be included in a summary of a literary text?
What is characters-setting-problem-solution-theme?
200
What is the purpose of an advertisement?
What is to persuade an audience to do something, give something, or agree with the speaker?
200
A folk tale
What is to teach the reader a lesson (or moral) by telling a story?
300
What is the section titled "An Accidental Success" mainly about?
What is go back into the passage to the section with the heading "An Accidental Success." Look at your title-its for that section. Re-read the section and decide what the main idea of the entire section is.
300
Which three letters should you write at the top of your page so you can later circle the letter that represents the genre of the passage?
What is LIP?
300
What should be included in the summary of an informational text?
What is who-what-when-where-why-how? (*Pay close attention to the WHO and the WHAT)
300
What is the purpose of a procedural text (recipe, instructions, etc.)?
What is to tell the reader how-to do something?
300
An article written about a person, place, or thing
What is to give information, or teach the reader, about that person, place, or thing?
400
How were potato chips first sold in some grocery stores?
GO BACK INTO THE PASSAGE, GO BACK INTO THE PASSAGE, GO BACK INTO THE PASSAGE! GO BACK INTO THE PASSAGE AND UNDERLINE IN THE TEXT WHEREVER IT TELLS YOU HOW THE CHIPS WERE FIRST SOLD! :) UNDERLINE, UNDERLINE, UNDERLINE
400
True of False: Read the questions and 4 answer choices before you read the passage.
What is FALSE?
400
True or False: A good summary includes lots of details from the story.
What is FALSE?
400
What is the purpose of a dictionary entry?
What is to give several meanings, or definitions, of a word?
400
A narrative poem
What is to tell a story?
500
Which of these lines from the poem rhyme? a) Lines 2 and 4 b) Lines 5 and 7 c) Lines 11 and 12 d) Lines 23 and 24
What is go back into the poem and re-read the lines that each answer choice mentions. Pay attention to if the last word in each line rhyme. For example-- 1. Roses are red, 2. Violets are blue, 3. You are going to rock your math test, 4. and your reading test, too! The words "blue" and "too" rhyme, so lines 2 and 4 would rhyme.
500
What should you make (by writing) before you read the passage?
What is a prediction?
500
Explain the key words and my words strategy.
What is key words (words from the passage that help you to understand the word's meaning) and my words (using your key words and your own thoughts come up with your own words for the vocabulary word)?
500
What is the purpose of quotation marks (" ")?
What is to show that people are making a comment or having a conversation (speaking), such as characters in a literary fiction story?
500
A poster or flier after an article
What is to provide extra information about the topic of the article? (Most posters try to persuade an audience to do something).
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