Reading Strategies
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Poetry
Genres
Who Knows?
100
picture in your mind what you are reading
What is a mental image?
100
persuade, inform, entertain
What is author's purpose?
100
deals with amusing happenings
What is humerous poetry?
100
made up stories or novels
What is fiction?
100
a story about a real person's life
What is biography?
200
Think about and guess what will happen next
What is a prediction?
200
words that describe a character in the story
What is character trait?
200
tells a story to entertain
What is narrative poetry?
200
this type of book would contain facts about sea turtles
What is nonfiction?
200
a story about the author's life
What is an autobiography?
300
tell or list the main parts
What is summarize?
300
using clues in story and what you know
What is inference?
300
two words that end in the same sound pattern
What is rhyme?
300
I should get my ears pierced because....
What is persuasive?
300
main idea, 2 or 3 events, conclusion
What is a summary?
400
paying attention to words surrounding an unfamiliar word
What is context clues?
400
same and different
What is compare and contrast?
400
personal feelings and emotions
What is lyrical poetry?
400
actors use a script to perform
What is a drama?
400
Lines spoken between characters in fiction or a play
What is dialogue?
500
tell it back in your own words
What is paraphrase?
500
board and bored
What is a homophone?
500
unrhymed lines that have no set pattern
What is free verse?
500
a recipe for chocolate chip brownies
What is Procedural?
500
told by someone, not identified by name, usually in past tense
What is third person?
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