Thinking Starter
Rd'g Strategies
Text Feature
Rd'g Skills
Potpourri
100
What I think will happen next is . . .
What is to predict
100
when I work to figure out what is confusing me
What is clarify strategy
100
Understand the word is important
What is italic
100
A method of paragraph or essay development in which a writer analyzes the reasons for (and/or the consequences of) an action, event or decision
What is cause and effect . . . or . . . similarities and differences.
100
how I test a book before I spend too much time on reading it and get frustrated
What is The Five Finger Test
200
This part sounds like . . .
What is to decode
200
when I think about the main ideas or the most important parts of what I read and I briefly tell in my own words what it was all about
What is summarize strategy
200
locate different categories in the text
What is title
200
aspects of a character's personality, background, or physique that make him better at some activities and worse at others
What are character traits.
200
a person, place, or thing
What is a noun.
300
The story is about . . . (I think about the main characters, setting, problem, solution, and theme or lesson)
What is to summarize literary text
300
when I figure out things the author does not say directly
What is the infer strategy
300
identify topics throughout the book as I skim and scan
What is headings
300
sentence of a paragraph tells what the paragraph is about
What is main idea
300
marks that set off speech in a text
What are quotation marks.
400
I think the author . . .
What is to evaluate
400
when I ask myself if what I am reading makes sense
What is the monitor strategy
400
understand a picture or photograph
What is a caption
400
other sentences in a paragraph
What are details
400
how ensure as I am reading that a book is "just right" and not too hard or too easy
What is the Goldilocks Method
500
How come . . .
What is to question.
500
when I come to a word I do not know how to read and I look at the word blends
What is phonics strategy.
500
how I say the words
What is a pronunciation guide
500
ordering events or steps in an informational piece of writing
What is sequence.
500
either a prefix or a suffix
What is an affix.
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