Strategies
Skills
Fiction
Non-fiction Text Features
Poetry
100
What you should do before you start reading a passage.
What is read the questions and answer choices?
100
A word with the same, or almost the same meaning.
What is a synonym?
100
The people or animals that a story is about.
What are characters?
100
A picture taken with a camera.
What is a photograph?
100
At the end of each line.
What is the place in the poem you would look for rhyming words?
200
What you should do while reading the passage.
What is label each paragraph with 2-4 words that will help you remember the information in the paragraph?
200
A word with the opposite meaning.
What is an antonym?
200
Where and when a story takes place.
What is the setting?
200
A drawing that explains something, usually with labels.
What is a diagram?
200
A poem that tells a story, with a beginning, middle, and end.
What is a narrative poem?
300
The first thing you should do when you are ready to work on a question.
What is read the question and all of the answer choices?
300
Events that happen in order, often connected by words such as first, next, then, or last.
What is a sequence of events?
300
The person the story is mostly about.
What is the main character?
300
Dark circles or dots next to a list of ideas.
What are bullets?
300
A poem with rhyme and rhythm, that does not tell a story and usually expresses feelings.
What is a lyrical poem?
400
What you should do before you choose an answer.
What is look for the answer in the passage, and eliminate answers that don't make sense?
400
Something that happens, and causes something else to happen.
What is cause and effect?
400
The person who is telling the story, if it is told in the first person.
What is the narrator?
400
Text underneath a picture that explain what the picture is about.
What is a caption?
400
Lines in a poem that are grouped together.
What is a stanza?
500
The best way to choose an answer.
What is look at the passage again, underline where you can prove the answer, and choose the answer that best supports the information in the passage?
500
Information that you can guess, that is not stated in the text.
What is an inference?
500
The who, what, when, where, and why of the story.
What is the plot?
500
Words, usually in bold print, that state the information found in a paragraph.
What is a heading?
500
The person who wrote the poem.
Who is the poet?
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