This graphic aid shows you where things are, how to get places, and may include topographical information such as mountain zones.
What is a map?
100
This tells you the subject of the entire article.
What is the title?
100
This is what you do when you look at the title, subheadings and photos to get an idea of what the story or article will be about.
What is previewing?
100
To find the main idea in in a nonfiction text you should use this strategy, 5W's and H.
What is who, what, when, where, why and how?
100
This is what you do when you guess what will happen next in a story.
What is making a prediction?
200
This graphic aid is a drawing or photo with LABELS that give detailed information about how something works or what parts are necessary to build something.
What is a diagram?
200
This is the "title" of each paragraph or section of a text. It tells you what the paragraph or section will be about.
What is a subheading?
200
This strategy should be used after reading each paragraph, it involves deciding if what you've read makes sense, and asking who, what, when, where, why and how.
What is questioning?
200
This is the part of the paragraph where the main idea can usually be found.
What is the first or last sentence.
200
This is what you do when you use what you've read to try and understand what the author means; sometimes known as an educated guess.
What is infer?
300
This graphic aid lists quick facts and information with little "dots" and is usually located somewhere within an article.
What is a bulleted list?
300
This is how to describe words that are written darkly and meant to be emphasized.
What is boldfaced print?
300
This strategy involves creating a picture in your mind as your reading.
What is visualizing?
300
These are the sentences that "hold up" or help out the main idea. You can use these as evidence to "back up" the main idea.
What are supporting details?
300
This is the turning point, or most exciting point of a fictional story.
What is the climax?
400
This graphic aid helps the reader understand what a photograph is describing.
What is a caption?
400
This is a bit of information pulled out to the side of an article. It is usually about the same subject, but gives the reader more information.
What is a sidebar?
400
This strategy involves relating what you read to what you know and to your thoughts, feelings, and experiences.
What is making connections?
400
This is the general subject of a text.
What is a topic?
400
The events that make up a fictional story, you can make a diagram of these events.
What is plot?
500
This graphic aid uses numbers, bars, or circles to compare statistical information.
What is a chart or graph?
500
This is the way the title of an article or fiction story is usually written.
What are in italics?
500
This strategy should be done after reading each paragraph. It involves writing a sentence or a few words out to the side to remind yourself of the main idea of the paragraph.
What is summarizing?
500
This is another word for "reason." It usually tells us what the author wants us to gain from their writing.
What is purpose, or author's purpose?
500
This is the information given in the exposition of a fictional story.
What are characters, setting, and any other background information.