Reading Strategies
What is the difference between a main idea and a detail?
A detail is a specific idea that gives more information about the main idea.
Paraphrase: What does paragraph 3 contribute to the text?
Why does paragraph 3 belong in the text? What does it add to the overall meaning or the order of events in the text?
Where do you find annoucements and the daily agenda?
You find them on the Stream tab.
What was your favorite Common Lit reading, and why?
No wrong answer, but be sure to explain why!
Describe how to preview an article before you read to help you focus.
Read the title and headings. Look at any pictures or graphics that are included. Read the first and last paragraphs of the text.
What do we mean by an author's point of view?
It is how the author's ideas, thoughts or feeling about a topic. An author's bias.
Where do you find the monthly folders, assignments, and material?
You find them on the Classwork tab.
Who can you talk to at Hubbs about College applications and financial aid?
Tou Lee at Trio, room 1510
A main idea is who or what the text is about, and what the author wants us to know about it.
A central theme is a lesson readers should learn from the text about life.
paraphrase: Part B. Which detail from the text best supports the answer to Part A?
There are two parts to the question, A and B.
Look at your answer to part A.
Choose A, B, C, or D for the detail that gives the stongest evidence for your answer to Part A.
Where do you find information for new students about resources at Hubbs, how to use Common Lit, and how to contact the teacher?
Open the Classwork tab and scroll to the WELCOME folder.
What was your favorite Common Lit reading, and why?
No wrong answer, just explain.
How can a reader determine an author's point of view?
Pay attention to language that the author uses. What does word choice reveal? What information is included, and what is missing? Who's voice in included, who's voice is missing?
What are two or more examples of an author's purpose in writing a text?
inform, persuade, entertain, explain how to
Describe two ways to check for upcoming or missing assignments.
On the Stream tab, check the Upcoming box on the left hand side or click on the calendar icon on the left hand side
or
on the Classwork tab, look at the due date on the right hand side across from each assignment
Name two types of figurative language.
Simile, metaphor, personification, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, repetition, parallel structure
What does imagery refer to? Give examples of imagery in a text.
Imagery appeals to our senses- things we can hear, see, taste, touch, and smell. It includes comparisons between things we don't usually think of as the same thing, symbols and figurative language. For example, comparing bullies at school to "sharks" or "the angry rain pounded on the house" and "the wind moaned."