Strategies! Strategies! Strategies!
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Riddle Me This 8P2
100

Hmm...I don't know this word. Maybe I should use this close reading strategy.

Circle the word

100

The word Skate has a ____ vowel sound

Long Vowel

100

"I am fourteen

and my skin has betrayed me

the boy I cannot live without

still sucks his thumb

in secret"

Hanging Fire

100

This skill helps you understand the reading by circling, questioning and making comments through the text.

Close Reading

100

What is black, white and read all over?

Newspaper

200

Ah! Here's something that looks very important, I should give it a _____________. 

Star

200

What is this an example of?

Sequence of Events

200

"But basketball is not my game. I have no game. I’m an artist, like Raul. The difference is, I don’t tell anybody. I refuse to give them new reasons to laugh at me. The Jolly Green Giant jokes are bad enough."

Bronx Masquerade

200

Maybe I can use background information and text form one of these

Inference

200

What has hands but doesn't clap?

A clock

300

Use this when responding to a question when it asks to CITE evidence and provide an explaination

The RACE Strategy
300

No need to sob. This type of vowel sound you can also hear when seeing the word cry.

Short Vowel
300

"I knew I'd be starting all over again. I'd be walking into some strange house like a new jack, with a fresh cut on my face and a lot to prove. For another sixteen days, until I went back to court, I'd have to buckle down and keep it real."

Riker's High

300

Cool! I got the right answer. Wait the teacher is asking me to find this to help support my answer?!

Cited Evidence/Quote
300
What has many Keys but can't open any doors

A Piano

400

This text feature helps us find more information in a box

Sidebar

400

I'm not telling my friend anything! If not, they will spill the beans!

Idiom

400

"Going out into the world can involve risks, but the adolescent brain is wired for that. Giedd points out that 'high risk equals high reward at times.' And, compared to children or adults, teens are much more sensitive to rewards."

The Debt We Owe The Adolescent Brain 

400

Exposition
Rising Action
CLIMAX
Falling Action
Resolution

This is how you find me :) 

Plot

400

I have no legs but I run. What am I?

Water/River

500

Not quite the title of the passage but it does help keep it organize

subtitles

500

It was a dark and stormy night. The wind was howling and trees swayed in the wind. It certainly was a scary Halloween night!

This quote cane be used to describe what?

Mood/Tone

500
"Chandra winkled her nose and responded, "She like sports and science and she doesn't take dance lessons-I just don't think we'd have anything in common, Dad."

An Unlikely Friendship

500
"Fly like a butterfly, 

Sting Like a Bee"

This quote from Mohammad Ali is an example of what?

Simile

500

I follow you all the time and copy your every move, but you can’t touch me or catch me. What am I?

Shadow

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