Reading Strategies
being able to relate to a passage/poem because of a personal experience
What is making connections
Identifying how something is similar and different
What is Comparing and Contrasting
Selecting a key word from the question and then finding it in the passage
What is Skimming and Scanning
Language used to imply ideas indirectly
What is Figurative Language
The result of something that is happening/that happened
What is Cause and Effect
Taking what I know and what the author gives me and putting it together
What is Making an Inference
Selecting two answers that may be right and two that may be wrong
What is the Process of Elimination
word or phrase is applied to an object or action (not using like or as)
What is a metaphor
putting what you read into your own words
who, what, why, when, where, how, why
What is the Main Idea
finding the meaning of unknown words
What is Context Clues
the opposite of what is expected ***
what is Irony
Dramatic, Situational, Verbal
reviewing a topic given by finding information from the text to support it
What is Reference and Research
why the author wrote the passage/poem ***
What is Author's Purpose
Inform, Entertain, Persuade
stating what you think will happen next
What is Making Predictions
a personal nature or human characteristics given to something nonhuman
What is personification
Putting events in order based on when they happened
What is Problem Solution
problem the main character has in a story ***
What is conflict
External, Internal,
the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
What is alliteration