Silent reading
Reading aloud
Strategies and author's purpose
The EDGE stories
Dreyfoos Trivia
100
This is the main purpose for silent reading time in our class.
What is to enjoy a book?
100
This is important to do before reading aloud.
What is read the text a few times?
100
This is what a good reader does prior to reading the text.
What is preview?
100
This story is about Roger and Mrs. Jones.
What is "Thank you, M'am?"
100
This is the official color of the freshman class.
What is blue?
200
This is what you are required to do after reading.
What is write a response on the reading log?
200
This is the word that means to read with flow and naturalness.
What is fluency?
200
This is a during reading strategy that makes the key words and phrases colorful and noticeable.
What is highlighting?
200
Mathilde learns to be grateful in this story.
What is "The Necklace?"
200
This is the mascot of Dreyfoos.
What is the jaguar?
300
This is the number of sentences you are required to write for each response on the reading log.
What is 2?
300
These are the marks in the text that guide the reader to pause.
What are commas?
300
This is an author's main purpose for writing a short story, novel or poem.
What is to entertain the reader?
300
In this excerpt from her memoir, Farah tells about an experience she has at an American high school when a girl made fun of the way she walks.
What is "The Fashion Show?"
300
This is the school police officer.
Who is Officer O'Sullivan OR Officer O?
400
This is the great active reading strategy for fiction that helps you imagine the story.
What is visualizing?
400
These are the punctuation marks that require the reader to change his/her intonation.
What are question marks and exclamation points?
400
This is an author's main purpose for writing an article.
What is to inform the reader?
400
This is the number of vocabulary words we preview in the EDGE workbook prior to reading a story.
What is 8?
400
This is the media specialist/librarian.
Who is Mrs. Davis?
500
This is the number of questions listed on the Reading Response Questions sheets.
What is 32?
500
This is the best way to improve one's reading aloud.
What is practice?
500
This is an author's main purpose for writing a political speech or an advertisement.
What is to persuade the reader?
500
This person wrote "A Raisin in the Sun."
Who is Lorrraine Hansberry?
500
This is the number of years (including this one) that Ms. F has had the pleasure of teaching at Dreyfoos.
What is 10?
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