Reading Strategies
The first thing you do when you receive a text to read.
What is the time period, place, historical context, and culture of a story.
When you are reading a story and you get bored, or you don't like it, or it's confusing, you should...
What is keep reading, use all your strategies, don't give up, and try your best.
What is dividing up a text into smaller chunks to read.
The 5 plot elements
What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution.
When a question mentions a paragraph #, you should...
What is go back to that paragraph and re-read it and look at your annotations. (before reading, label the question # next to the paragraph)
Annotations should focus on...
What is the main idea of the chunk.
Theme
What is the central message of a story that applies to life. (what you learned about life after reading the story)
When you don't know what a word in the question means you should...
What is use a dictionary and look it up.
When you don't know what a word means you should...
What is use your context clues first and then a dictionary.
The 5 ways authors describe characters in their story.
How to know your answer is correct.
What is find text evidence to support your answer and use the process of elimination.
When you make an inference or infer, you are...
What is using the clues in the story to draw a conclusion.
Internal Conflict
What is when a character faces a struggle inside (an emotion, a decision, etc.)
How to break down the questions
What is circling or underlining the key words and putting the question into your own words.