This is the first strategy - sometimes you pick, sometimes it is given to you.
What is Set a Purpose for Reading"?
100
Have a goal in mind, or some idea of what to look for in a text.
What is Set a Purpose for Reading?
100
Which of these (to, too, or two) correctly finishes this sentence:
I want to go get ice cream_____!
What is too?
100
What are the 5Ws and the H?
What is: Who, what, when, where, why, and how?
100
Your first paragraph can and should be this many sentences long.
What is 1 or 2?
200
This strategy helps you understand what you read by writing things down.
What is Make Margin notes?
200
As a reader you actively use what you already know to understand a text.
What is Activate Background Knowledge?
200
Spell the correct word that means a bunch of people own something.
What is their?
200
True or false, news articles give a lot of background information in the introduction.
What is false?
200
The first paragraph should have what information?
What is Who, What, When, and Where.
300
Analyze is only half of this strategy.
What is Analyze and Evaluate?
300
Text-to-text, text-to-world, text-to-self.
What is Make Connections?
300
When it is cold outside you complain about this. (Spell it out)
What is weather.
300
Since a good news article will provide the most important information first, and background information last, we organize the information into this type of triangle.
What is the Inverted Pyramid?
300
For the literacy test, you need this number of quotations at a minimum.
What is 2?
400
These two strategies go hand-in-hand. They both rely on your knowledge
What are Activate Background Knowledge and Make Connections?
400
To look for specific features of a text.
What is Preview a text?
400
They're and You're are this type of word (where you take two words and "smush" them together).
What are contractions.
400
The second category of the Inverted Pyramid is for what type of information?
What is Important Details?
400
When writing a news article, you can section your information into this many categories.
What is 4?
500
Mrs. Varillas came up with this anagram to help you remember your reading strategies. Hint - you take the first letter of each strategy to spell something out.
What is SPAMAM?
500
To get readers to look critically at a text and its features.
What is Analyze and Evaluate?
500
This is the definition of homophones.
What are words that sound the same but have different meanings and different spellings?
500
True or false, good news articles have a lot of descriptive language and are written in the first person.
What is false?
500
How many news articles do you write on the literacy test?