Reading Strategy Definitions
Break the text down in parts
What is chunk reading?
A high point of the story, such as where a character must make a big decision
What is climax?
The prince finds Cinderella and saves her from the evil stepmother.
What is Resolution?
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What is predicting?
Denouement
What is plot?
A way to organize your notes by dividing it into 2 sides
What is a T-Chart?
A struggle between opposing forces: usually internal or external conflict.
What is conflict?
The evil stepmother and stepsisters made Cinderella their servant
What is Exposition?
When you keep track of the following title and author, main characters, setting, main and minor events.
What is Summarizing?
SOAPStone
What is Reading Strategies?
Using context clues and background knowledge to guess what is happening beneath the surface
What is inferencing?
The main character(s) are working their way towards solving their main conflict.
What is Rising Action?
Cinderella has to leave quickly before her carriage turns into a pumpkin
What is climax?
When you highlight key words and put a star next to important passages
What is annotating?
Once upon a time...
What is plot?
To take notes in the margins of a text
What is annotating?
The wrapping up of the showdown in the Climax. This is how the character(s) get to the Resolution of the story.
What is Falling Action?
Cinderella's family tries to prevent her from achieving her goal
What is conflict?
You are trying to identify a character's actions, and so you find a paragraph and then re-state it in your own words.
What is paraphrasing?
Tellback
A way to organize reactions and thoughts.
Also known as the Denouement,
What is Resolution?
The stepmother gives many chores to Cinderella so she can't go to the ball
What is rising action?
Readers use facts they already know about the topic and use personal experience about the topic.
What is inferencing?