Strategies
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Text Structure
Reading Strategies
100
Good readers is this strategy when they use the words they just read to create a picture in their minds.
What is visualization?
100
The author's purpose for writing fiction.
What is entertain?
100
This text feature is used to show the location of places. It may be included in an article about the best places to see bluebonnets in Texas in the spring.
What is a map?
100
Information is organized in order of time.
What is chronological?
100
I look for this in a passage in order to "prove" my answer
What is evidence?
200
There are 3 types of these: text to text, text to self and text to world.
What is ways to make connections?
200
Fiction always includes this description of time and place.
What is setting?
200
This text feature helps me know what words are important in the text.
What is bold words?
200
Describes how something looks or the arrangement of a space.
What is descriptive?
200
________ _________ helps the reader in determining the meaning of unfamiliar words. These can be found within, or in the surrounding sentences.
What are context clues?
300
Good readers use this strategy to give them a purpose for reading. It is used before the begin to read, while they are reading and after reading.
What is questioning?
300
These are based on the actions and words of the characters.
What is characters traits?
300
Autobiographies and biographies are included in this category of non-fiction.
What is literary non-fiction?
300
A difficulty is described and an answer is offered.
What is problem and solution?
300
During Reading, when you stop and think about what will happen next.
What is stage predicting?
400
Good readers develop these by using clues from the text and their schema.
What is inferencing?
400
All stories are written with this in mind including rising action, climax and falling action.
What is a plot?
400
The author's purpose of an advertisement about the best features of an ipad that includes words like you should and best.
What is to persuade?
400
An action and its results are discussed.
What is cause and effect?
400
After you have read your selection, you think of something that it reminds you of in your life, something you have read, or something in the world.
What is making connections?
500
Good readers believe in themselves and read with this.
What is confidence?
500
Authors sometimes includes this hidden message or lesson in their stories.
What is theme?
500
A newspaper article about the dangers of playing video games all day is this type of text.
What is informational text?
500
Differences and similarities of two or more things are discussed.
What is compare and contrast?
500
I use my schema to make connections to the text.
What is inference?
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