Critical Reading Strategies
What is making predictions?
Comparing two things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
A type of writing organization that relates a series of events
What is a narrative?
These are used to create visual representations of ideas, facts, theories and concepts
What are graphic organizers?
Using words around an unknown word in a sentence to understand the meaning.
What is using context clues?
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?
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?
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?
This graphic organizer is best used for organizing main ideas and details from textbooks.
What is a cluster diagram or cornell notes?
Putting notes in the margin of a text of reading.
What are annotations?
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?
A deliberate overstatement or exaggeration to make an impression
What is hyperbole?
What is cause and effect?
A graphic organizer that helps to organize information according to similarities and differences
What is a Venn Diagram?
This is the general subject of a text passage that can be said in a word or short phrase.
What is the topic?
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?
The moon made its nightly climb over the fading horizon is an example.
What is personification?
This shows with words a method of doing something in sequence.
What is process analysis?
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?
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?
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?
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?
This divides a subject into various categories and identifies a member or group based on similar characteristics.
What is classification?
This organizer is best used for recording a narrative's details.
What is the 5 W's Concept web or chart?
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?