Reading Strategies
Stories We've Read
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100
You do this first, when you are given something you've never read before
What is survey the text?
100
In this story a boy survives homelessness during the Great Depression.
What is Bud, not Buddy?
100
Find the mistake in this sentence: There is five hundred bears left in the wild.
What is incorrect verb form? "is" should be "are"
100
His eyes sparkled like diamonds.
What is simile?
100
When you make a picture in your head of what you are reading.
What is visualization?
200
You write these in the text or on post-it notes to monitor your comprehension while reading
What is margin notes
200
In this story the main character saves thousands of lives by writing visas for people to escape the country.
What is Passage to Freedom?
200
Find the mistake in this sentence: Jake said, you never wanted me to come here!
What is there are no quotation marks?
200
Bang! Pow! Ouch!
What is onomatopoeia?
200
After reading, you write what happened in a shortened version, telling only the most important events.
What is a summary?
300
After you read you can make a Venn diagram to do this with two characters
What is compare and contrast?
300
In this story, a girl runs away to the Museum of Natural History.
What is Wonderstruck?
300
Find the mistake in this sentence: Quills on a porcupine.
What is an incomplete sentence? Fragment! No predicate!
300
His eyes were sparkling diamonds.
What is metaphor?
300
While you are reading a story it makes you think of another story you've read before, or a movie you saw, or something that happened in your own life.
What is making connections?
400
This is the same idea as giving your opinion of what you have read.
What is evaluate?
400
In this story, the main character is always in the wrong place at the wrong time.
What is Holes?
400
Find the mistake in this sentence: The boys knew they're mistake as soon as they saw there dog was covered in mud!
What is wrong form of there, their, and they're!
400
The tree bowed down and saluted as I walked past.
What is personification?
400
First, next, also, in conclusion, however, on the other hand, finally, then, secondly, after that, ...
What is transitional words?
500
When you add what you already know from your life experiences plus what the author tells you it equals this.
What is inference?
500
In this story, the main character challenges a new girl to a game of raquetball.
What is The Challenge?
500
Find the mistake in this sentence: I see a lot of mistakes in your writing
What is there is no end punctuation!
500
We have a ton of homework tonight, I'll never get it all done!
What is hyperbole?
500
A broad statement that is based on facts.
What is a generalization?
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