Reading Strategies
This is when you highlight a text or write comments in the margins while you read...
What is annotation? What is close reading?
This is the time and place of the story.
What is setting?
(There, Their or They're) dog is very cute.
Their
Find the Noun:
The moon was bright.
Moon
These are hints found within a sentence, paragraph, or passage that a reader can use to understand the meanings of new or unfamiliar words.
What are context clues?
This the main character of a story.
What is the protagonist?
(Its, It's) foundation was not stable.
Its
Find the Verb:
The moon glowed through the trees.
Glowed
Determining what you think will happen next in the text.
What is predicting?
These are hints to the reader about future events in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
(Whose, Who's) homework is this that I found?
Whose
Find the adjective:
The bright moon could be seen for miles.
Bright
Condensing the text into our own words.
What is a summary?
This what the reader may learn or what the main character may learn at the end of a story.
What is theme?
(There, Their, They're) exhausted after the long hike.
They're
Find the adverb:
The moon shone brightly over the forest.
Brightly