Reading Strategies
The reading strategy that has students relate the text to themselves.
What is Making Connections
Using what you know from the text to make a smart guess about what will happen later on in the story.
What is Making a Prediction
A 5 line poem that has 2 syllables in the first line, 4 syllables in the 2nd line, 6 syllables in the 3rd line, 8 syllables in the 4 line and 2 syllables in the 5 line.
What is a Cinquain
One of the individuals in a story or article
What is a character
To look closely at two or more things and see how they are similar
What is Compare
Reader use this strategy by using details in the text to create pictures in their mind and imagine what is happening.
What is Visualization
Drawing a conclusion about a story based on clues in the text and your own background knowledge
What is Making an Inference
A four line comical verse poem where the 1st two lines rhyme and the 2nd two lines rhyme
What is a Clerihew
The place and time in which a story happens.
What is Setting
To look closely at two or more things to see how they are different
What is Contrast
This strategy is the way an author chooses to share information.
What is Organization of Text
The perspective from which a story is told
What is Point of View
A poem where you select a subject to write about and then write the word vertically down the page. Each line begins with the letter that you wrote down the page.
What is an Acrostic Poem
The main problem in a story
What is Conflict
The action or reason something happens in a story
(Why it happened)
What is Cause
This strategy is when the reader figures out the main topic and stays focused on details that relate to the topic.
What is Determining the Important Information
Hints readers use to figure out the meaning of an unknown word
What is Context Clues
An unrhymed poetry form that originated in Japan. It has only three lines which follow this format- 5-7-5 syllables
What is a Haiku
The solution or outcome of the problem or conflict.
What is Resolution
What is Effect
When the reader asks who, what, when, where, why and how before, during and after their reading to help them understand what he/she has read.
What is Asking Questions
Exact words, phrases, or sentences in a text that provide information, answer a questions or support a claim
What is Text Evidence
A form of poetry that has seven lines and does not rhyme and it shaped like a diamond
What is a Diamonte'
The big idea or message of a story
What is Theme
The way the narrator feels about the events, setting, and characters in a story.
What is the Tone.