Critical Reading Strategies
Figurative Language Strategies
Patterns of Organization Strategies
Visual Literacy Strategies
Random Strategies
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The reader asks oneself what might happen as a result of the title, character descriptions and from stated actions and events. 

What is making predictions?

100

Comparing two things using "like" or "as"

What is a simile?

100

A type of writing organization that relates a series of events

 What is a narrative?

100

These are used to create visual representations of ideas, facts, theories and concepts

What are graphic organizers?

100

Using words around an unknown word in a sentence to understand the meaning.

What is using context clues?

200

This is when a reader breaks down information by determining a writer's purpose, separating facts and opinions, judging the validity of an argument and/or identifying the author's tone.

What is analyzing and synthesizing the reading material?  

200

Giving human qualities to an object, animal or an idea to bring life and meaning to a description and to help readers form mental pictures

What is personification?

200

This defines a person, place, thing or idea by explaining the characteristics that distinguish it from others in its class.

What is definition and example? 

200

This graphic organizer is best used for organizing main ideas and details from textbooks. 

What is a cluster diagram or cornell notes?

200

Putting notes in the margin of a text of reading.

What are annotations? 

300

This determines how an author organizes their text and word choices and can be categorized as being informative, persuasive, entertainment, description or a narration. 

What is the writer's purpose?

300

A deliberate overstatement or exaggeration to make an impression

What is hyperbole?

300
Showing relationship between 2 or more events

What is cause and effect?

300

A graphic organizer that helps to organize information according to similarities and differences

What is a Venn Diagram?

300

This is the general subject of a text passage that can be said in a word or short phrase.

 What is the topic?

400

This is when what you're reading includes information that is clearly suggested or implied by the writer, but is not explicitly stated.

What is making an inference?

400

The moon made its nightly climb over the fading horizon is an example. 

What is personification?

400

This shows with words a method of doing something in sequence.

What is process analysis?

400

This is best used for pre reading strategies: using background knowledge, setting a purpose for reading and recording what has been learned. 

What is a KWL chart?

400

This figurative language uses a phrase or two or more words to mean something quite different  from what the words would mean normally. Ex. "Don't cry over spilled milk" or "It was raining cats and dogs"

What is an idiom?


500

This is when what you're reading includes information that isn't clearly or directly stated, and you are using your prior knowledge.

What is drawing a conclusion?

500

When Maya Angelou says in "Still I Rise" in stanza 8: "I am a black ocean, leaping and wide, welling and swelling I bear in the tide."

What is a metaphor?

500

This divides a subject into various categories and identifies a member or group based on similar characteristics.

What is classification?

500

This organizer is best used for recording a narrative's details.

What is the 5 W's Concept web or chart?

500

Involves higher order thinking (h.o.t) skills such as analyzing, comparing and judging and is evaluative and reflective in nature. 

What is critical thinking? 

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