Reading Comprehension Strategies
This strategy increases note-taking and reading comprehension.
What is S.C.U.B.A.?
A person, place or thing
What is a noun?
This type of sentence represents a complete thought.
What is a "simple sentence"?
The author directly reveals the personality of a character.
What is direct characterization?
You end a sentence with this mark.
What is a period?
The S in S.C.U.B.A.
What is "scan the text"?
An action word
What is a verb?
For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet (F.A.N.B.O.Y.S.) make up this type of conjunction.
What are "coordinating conjunctions"?
The author indirectly reveals the personality of a character.
What is indirect characterization?
You add these before and after citing evidence.
What are "quotation marks"?
The C in S.C.U.B.A.
A describing word that covers different concepts (e.g., color, size, shape, personality).
What is an adjective?
After, Before, Because, Although, When, Whenever, Wherever, While, Even though, So that, If make up this type of conjunction.
What is a "subordinating conjunction"?
This is the S.T.E.A.L. strategy.
What is the character's personality through their "speech, thoughts, effect on others, actions and looks".
You add this mark to "s" to show possession or to indicate "is".
What is an apostrophe?
The U in S.C.U.B.A.
What is "underline key details"?
A word that describes a verb (e.g., he "quickly" walked to his next class).
What is an adverb?
This type of sentence is made up of 2 or more independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction (i.e., FANBOY).
What is a "compound sentence"?
This type of characterization: He stated, "I feel so sluggish the last thing I want to do is clean my room".
What is character's speech?
You capitalize with M.I.N.T.S.
What is: months, days, holidays, pronoun I, names, titles, and starting letters of sentences?
The B and A in S.C.U.B.A.
What is "box names/dates/places/amounts" and "annotate for patterns/reactions/questions/claims/main idea/themes"?
Nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs fall under this one category
What are "parts of speech"?
This type of sentence consists of an independent and dependent clause joined by a subordinating conjunction.
What is a "complex sentence?"
This type of characterization: Even Kobe's "haters" were not truly haters as they all had the highest form of respect for his basketball mastery.
What is "effect on others?"
You use this mark when beginning a sentence with a dependent clause.
What is a comma?