Reading Strategies
This strategy involves stating the main idea of a text in a concise and accurate way.
What is Summarizing?
This text feature acts as a mini dictionary at the end of a text.
What is a glossary?
This organizational pattern explains why something happened and what the result was.
What is Cause and Effect?
This type of figurative language is language and region specific and does not make sense when read literally.
What is an idiom?
This step (include the number) involves correcting spelling, punctuation, capitalization and grammar.
What is Step 4: Editing?
This strategy involves identifying unfamiliar vocabulary or terms and looking up the definitions or finding additional information in other sources before continuing to read any further.
What is Searching and Selecting?
This text feature provides information on where to locate specific topics within the text.
What is an Index?
This organizational pattern describes an issue and then proposes one or more ways to solve it.
What is Problem and Solution?
"Being on cloud nine" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is an idiom?
This step (include the number) involves two different steps, neither of which require writing complete sentences?
What is Step 1: Prewriting (Brainstorming and Outline)
This reading strategy involves thinking about what you already know about the subject before beginning to read?
What is Activation?
This text feature contains page numbers for chapters in the text.
What is the table of contents?
This organizational pattern details the characteristics of a person, place, or thing.
What is Descriptive?
This type of figurative language requires the audience to be aware of the reference in order to understand the writer's purpose.
What is an allusion?
This step involves formatting the text so that it is readable for the audience.
What is Step 5: Publishing?
This reading strategy involves reading between the lines and making an educated guess.
What is Inferring?
This text feature is uses an asterisk or sometimes a small triangle to provide additional information at the bottom of the page.
What is footnote?
This organizational pattern presents events in the order in which they occurred.
What is Chronological?
This type of figurative language can provide insight into a culture.
What is an idiom?
This step involves creative thinking and putting general ideas into paragraphs.
What is Step 2: Drafting (rough draft)?
Provide an answer for each:
What is a Level One Question?
What is a Level Two Question?
What is a Level Three Question?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
Level One: Right There Question. A simple question about the text with a short, direct answer.
Level Two: Think and Search Question. A question that involves some analysis and inference.
Level Three: About You Question. A question that focuses on the big and asks the reader to apply the information in some way to themselves.
This text feature can be small letters, shapes, or numbers found after certain words that will direct the reader to another section of the text that contains similar or complimentary information.
What is a cross reference?
This organizational pattern provides a series of steps that must be completed in order.
What is Sequential?
These are the five types of allusions.
What are Mythological, Historical, Literary, Biblical, and Pop Culture?
Step 3: Revising
Part A: Ideas. This involves making sure the main ideas are in logical order, the paragraphs contain enough detail, and the reader can easily grasp the writer's intentions.
Part B: Adding an introduction with a hook and a thesis statement to the beginning, and adding a conclusion to the end.