Good Reader Strategies
Vocabulary
Misc.
Figurative Language
Figurative Language
100
This is what you do when you "read between the lines."
What is infer?
100
A comparison of two unlike things using like or as.
What is a simile?
100
Name the 3 purposes authors write texts.
What is to inform, to persuade, and to entertain?
100
The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky.
What is stars dancing playfully?
100
The flowers waltzed in the gentle breeze.
What is flowers waltzed?
200
What you do when you have a picture in your head of what you are reading.
What is vizualize?
200
This word means a great many.
What is numerous?
200
If you don't understand a question you should do this.
What is go back and reread.
200
The run down house appeared depressed.
What is the house appeared depressed?
200
The sun glared down at me from the sky.
What is the sun glared down?
300
This is what you should do to make sure you have the correct answer on your answer document.
What is underline?
300
This type of person may not be thinking clearly.
What is irrational?
300
The main idea of a passage tells us this.
What is what the passage is about?
300
He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
What is born with a silver spoon in his mouth?/He was born with anything he could have wanted.
300
He let the cat out of the bag.
What is shared a secret that she wasn't supposed to tell?
400
When answering a two or four point question, make sure you do this first.
What is restate the question?
400
To save.
What is conserve?
400
These give more information about the main idea of a text.
What are supporting details?
400
Don't bite off more than you can chew.
What is bite off more than you can chew?/Don't take on a task so large that you can't accomplish it.
400
He waited on pins and needles.
What is waited anxiously?
500
Use your prior knowledge to do this.
What is make connections?
500
If a task is this, then it is discouraging.
What is daunting?
500
A human characteristic given to something that is not human.
What is personification?
500
Hold your horses!
What is wait a minute?
500
The wind sang through the meadow.
What is the wind sang?
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