Reading Strategies
When using this reading strategy, a reader asks for more information about things that confuse them in the text OR things the text made them wonder about.
What is Question?
The book series "The Hunger Games," about a dystopian future in which children are forced to fight each other to the death, belongs to this text type.
What is Narrative Fiction?
Incomplete sentences, loosely used CUPS, and slang words are markers of what type of speech?
What is informal English OR non-standard English?
This acronym helps writers remember to check for small mistakes in their writing during the Editing step of the writing process.
What is CUPS?
This is the color you would use to highlight an "eXample" sentence in AXES.
What is yellow?
This reading strategy involves using clues from the text to guess something that will happen in the future.
What is Predict?
Your math textbook is an example of this text type.
What is Informational/Explanatory Text?
Read the following sentence: "R u goin 2 the game tn?"
In what context (setting) would you most likely see this written?
What is a text message?
When an author sits down to write the earliest version(s) of the text, they are on this step of the writing process.
What is Draft?
The sentence, "Halloween is the best holiday for three reasons," would be highlighted this color in a paragraph.
What is green?
When using this reading strategy, the reader judges the text, deciding their own opinion about the value of what they've just read.
What is Evaluate?
If you were to write a paragraph answering the prompt, "Is a hot dog a sandwich?" the paragraph would belong to this text type.
What is an Argumentative/Persuasive Text?
Scenario: You are a producer reading a script for a TV pilot episode and you come across a line in which a 5-year-old child tells his 7-year-old brother, "I prefer winter to autumn; I feel comfortable as I sit and watch TV in the cold weather. I also enjoy being outside in the snow."
TRUE OR FALSE:
This sentence is appropriate for the purpose of the text.
What is FALSE?
In this step of the writing process, the writer finally allows outsiders to read their writing.
What is Share and/or Publish?
The sentence, "One reason I love Halloween is the amount of free candy I get each year," is which letter in an AXES paragraph?
What is X (eXample)?
Text-to-text, text-to-world, and text-to-self are examples of this reading strategy.
What is Connect?
The memoir "Night" by Elie Wiesel, where the author (who was a Holocaust survivor) writes about his experiences in concentration camps, belongs to this text type.
What is Narrative Nonfiction?
TRUE OR FALSE:
The sentence, "Today I'm gonna tell you about the reasons you should try to use less plastic" is appropriate to use in a school essay about plastic pollution.
What is FALSE?
In this step of the writing process, a writer makes major changes to the organization or content of the writing to make sure the text is achieving its purpose.
What is Revise?
Read the following section of a paragraph:
"One reason I love Halloween is all the free candy I get each year. For example, last Halloween I brought home two pillowcases full of candy."
The second sentence in this section should be highlighted which color?
What is pink?
This reading strategy involves using context clues or other information within or outside the text to help the reader understand something better.
What is Clarify?
This is the only academic text type where informal English is sometimes acceptable.
What is Narrative?
Scenario: you receive an assignment is to write about a school rule you wish could be changed, but you have never thought about this idea before. You need to consider the school rules (maybe read the handbook in your planner) and decide on one to write about. You are on this step of the writing process.
What is Pre-write?
The purpose of this sentence in an AXES paragraph is to explain how one of the examples proves the assertion is true.
What is E (Explanation)?