Reading Stuff
WDAO
Writing
English Essentials
Strategies
100

Mostly what the story is about, like a summary.

What is the Main Idea?

100

What was Walt Disney's Fathers name? 

What is Elias?

100

Supporting details are?

What are reasons, examples, steps or other kinds of evidence that explain a main idea or point?

100

A part of a sentence that is a person, place or thing that a sentence is about.

what is a subject?

100

The first thing you should do when you are given the passage to read.

What is look at the title?

200

Something that can be proved or disproved.

What is a fact?

200

What was the name of Disney's first real animation shop?

What was Laugh O, Grams?

200

Major Details.

What is to explain or develop the main idea?

200

This part of a sentence expresses action it tells what the subject is doing.

What is a verb?

200
After looking at the title, the next step you should take.
What is looking at the way the passage is organized - bold faced type, headings, etc.?
300

What a person thinks or feels about a subject.

What is an opinion?

300

Where was Walt living when he delivered newspapers.  

Where was Kansas City, Missouri?

300

Two of the steps in the writing process.

What is getting started through prewriting, Preparing a scratch outline, writing a first draft, revising and editing, reading the paper aloud?

300

This is a group of words that begin with a preposition and ends with a noun.

What is a prepositional phrase?

300
After looking at the way the passage is organized, the next step you should take.
What is previewing the questions?
400

Finding how two things are similar.

What is comparing them?

400

What were the names of at least three Dwarfs from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs? 

Who are Sneezy, Dopey, Doc, Happy, Grumpy, Sleepy, Bashful.

400

Patterns of organization.

What are listing, illustration, time order, cause and effect, compare and contrast?

400

They do not form their past tense and past practicable by adding -ed, or -d.

What are irregular verbs?

400
Something important you do as you preview the questions.
What is underline key words/phrases and write down the type of question it is?
500

Finding how two things are different.

What is contrasting them?

500

The main idea for Walt Disney an American Original?

What was success through failure?

500

An educated guess based on the information in the text and your background knowledge.

What is an inference?

500

These sentences have only one subject-verb combination and have one complete thought?

What are simple sentences?

500
While reading the passage, what you should be doing to the text.
What is underlining the Main Idea of each paragraph, or writing a short summary of each section in the margin?
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