Literary Elements
Red Kayak
Vocabulary
Red Kayak & Vocabulary
Reciprocal Reading
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The people or animals in a story.
What are the characters?
100
This main character could be described as brave and responsible for his actions.
Who is Brady?
100
This means persistent or repeatedly.
What is insistently?
100
This means non-working position of gears or to not take a position/side on an issue.
What is neutral?
100
These strategies can happen before, during, or after reading.
What is predicting and questioning?
200
The pattern of events in a story.
What is the plot?
200
Brady made this decision on a cold, spring morning.
What is he decided not to tell Mrs. DiAngelo and Ben that it was too stormy for boating?
200
This means usually or commonly.
What is normally?
200
This means brave.
What is courageous?
200
This strategy is used whenever you are confused (words or ideas).
What is clarifying?
300
This causes drama in the story - the problem.
What is conflict?
300
This is why Brady grumbles about searching the smaller coves.
What is he thinks it is a waste of his time because everything should end up down river?
300
This means on purpose.
What is intentionally?
300
Brady doesn't speed towards the ambulance for this reason.
What is he knows Ben needs him to continue CPR and breathe for him?
300
This strategy is used when you wonder or ask yourself things about the story.
What is questioning?
400
The most intense part of the story. The point when things start to change.
What is climax?
400
This is the reason Brady decides to search a little longer.
What is Tilly's insistent barking?
400
This means to complain, usually in a low voice.
What is grumbled?
400
This means pressing.
What are compressions?
400
Telling the important events in the story describes this strategy.
What is summarizing?
500
The part of the story when the problem is solved.
What is the resolution?
500
After Brady drops his phone into the water he relies on this rescue training to keep calm.
What is the ABC's (airways/breathing/circulation)?
500
This means very small.
What is minute?
500
This is the clue that lets Brady and the reader know Ben will live.
What is Carl shouting, "We've got a pulse!"
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You use this strategy when you think about what might happen in the story or happen next.
What is predicting?
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