Reading Strategies
Plot Diagram
Critical Vocabulary
Elements of Poetry
Fiction/Inform Texts
100

A guess you make based off CLUES or PICTURES in the text.

What is Prediction?

100

When characters respond to events in the plot, they respond to actions and interactions with others, which is ______________ AND with their inner thoughts and feelings, which is __________.

What is external? What is internal?

100

Easily understood or obvious is when something is ___________.

What is evident?

100

_____________ is a powerful way for people to express emotions, offering insights or new ways of thinking.

What is poetry?

100

A genre or type of literature in which the characters, plot and setting are imaginary is called ________________.

What is fiction?
200

When you create a PICTURE in your MIND using the clues or words from the text as you read.  



What is Visualization?

200

The _______________ response to events, in turn, shapes the plot as it develops.

What is the character's response?

200
Someone or something that has an effect on an event or situation is called a ________________.
What is a factor?
200

A _____________ is a form of poetry that is usually written in first person, expressing a single speaker's personal ideas and feelings.

What is a lyric?
200

People, animals or creatures in a story are the ______________.

What are characters?

300

As a reader we make connections when we have something in COMMON with the text. 



What are CONNECTIONS?

300
The author uses a character's _________________ and __________________ to help set the plot in motion.

What is personality and circumstances?

300

To point out or to serve as a sign or a symbol of something means to _______________.

What is indicate?
300

The voice that talks to the reader in any type of poetry is called the ________________.

What is the speaker?

300

When a text includes facts and sources that may be cited to support these facts, the text is an __________________ text.

What is informational?

400

RETELLING what you read in your own WORDS based on text evidence is called ___________________



What is SUMMARIZING?

400

____________ influences character development and how the characters change during the story.

What is setting?

400

Something that is alike in appearance or nature, though not identical, it has features that are the same. This term is _________________.

What is similar?

400

The four R's in poetry are _______________, _____________, ____________, and _________________.

What is Rhyme, Rhythm, Repetition and Refrain.

400

When a text includes titles, headings and subheadings, these features help to ______________ the text so the reader may easily read and understand the text.

What is organize?

500

When a reader continuously asks about things happening in the plot or sequence of events and also explains what has happened, using text clues and cite evidence, these two strategies are being used....

What is questioning and inferencing?

500

Draw the plot diagram, showing the different elements of plot.

Exposition -- setting and characters; rising action -- events that cause problems/conflict; climax -- when the conflict is at its peak; falling action -- when events turn toward the resolution; and denouement/resolution -- how things ended.


500

Clearly defined or identified is ____________.

What is specific?
500

Describe the 4 R's...

Rhyme -- when the ending sound of a line has the same vowel sound.

Rhythm -- when the line in a poem has a certain beat or bounce to it, when said.

Repetition -- when a line keeps happening over and over for emphasis in a poem.

Refrain -- when there one or more lines that are repeated after so many lines in a poem.

500
When a text is in a box or highlighted next to the main text, it is called a ________________.
What is a sidebar?
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