Reading Strategy
The W stands for who or what the passage is about.
The I stands for what is important about the who or what.
The N is write the main idea in a short amount of words.
What is the W.I.N. Strategy?
This term describes the main character in the story.
What is the protagonist?
This structure tells the events in the order they happened.
What is chronological order?
A phrase that means something different from its literal meaning, like "break a leg."
What is an idiom?
The S. is silly. The T is tricky. The O is opposite and the P is proven.
What is the S.T.O.P. Strategy?
This is a comparison using the words "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
A word that means the same as another word.
This structure shows how things are alike and different.
What is compare and contrast?
An extreme exaggeration used for emphasis or effect.
What is a hyperbole?
This strategy involves looking at the title, headings, and pictures before reading the text.
What is previewing?
This term means giving human traits to non-human things.
What is personification?
A word that describes a person, place, or thing.
What is an adjective?
This structure explains a problem and offers one or more solutions.
What is problem and solution?
A word or phrase that imitates a sound, like "crash" or "sizzle."
What is onomatopoeia?
This is the strategy of putting ideas into your own words to better understand the text.
What is paraphrasing?
This is the struggle between opposing forces that drives the plot.
What is conflict?
The part of a word added to the beginning to change its meaning.
What is a prefix?
This structure explains why something happened and what happened as a result.
What is cause and effect?
The repetition of the same beginning sound in a group of words, like "Peter Piper picked a ..."
What is alliteration?
This strategy involves making guesses about what will happen next.
What is predicting?
This term refers to an object or element that represents a deeper meaning in a story.
What is denotation?
This structure describes a topic and its characteristics in detail.
What is descriptive or description?
A reference to a famous person, place, event, or work of art or literature.
What is an allusion?