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This symbol represents a story's problem

What is a flag with a question mark?

100

When a character comes to the rescue, has an idea to help or gives advice, the solution is _____________ helped.

What is "someone" helped?

100

This is the most important information from a text that is retold in the order of the original text.

What is a summary?

100

When a reader analyzes a main character, he/she looks for characteristics that relate to how the character looks.  These characteristics are called _________.

What are "features" or physical features?

100

This is the "voice" you are using when are thinking about a video game while reading a book.

What is your "distracting voice"?

200
A character has a problem with __________ when he/she has an inner struggle he needs to conquer.

What is "a problem with himself or herself"?

200
This is the type of solution to a problem where there is an internal change within the character and the outcome is not always a happy ending.

What is "something changed"?

200

Every story follows this same text structure.

What is Setting, main character(s), problem, attempted solutions, solution?

200

When we read the True Story of the 3 Little Pigs, the wolf going to each pig's house to get a cup of sugar for his dear old granny's birthday cake was one of the actions he did that help us understand the character's ____________________.

What is "perspective"?

200

This is the voice you are using when you are reading the text on the page word for word.

What is your "reading voice"?

300

When the main character is upset with another character.  What type of problem is this?

What is a problem with "someone else"?

300

Readers expect a problem to be solved in one of ____ ways.

What is 3?

300

What text feature is used to understand the meaning of vocabulary used in the text.

What is a glossary?

300

When the reader collects details about what a character wonders, worries and dreams about, that is the ______________________part of FAST.

What is "thinks"?

300

This is the voice you use when you are making inferences about what you are reading or drawing conclusions about the reading that are not necessarily in the print.

What is your "thinking voice"?

400

If a character is upset about a situation or a "thing", he or she has this type of problem.

What is a problem with "something"?

400

This is the type of solution to a problem where the main character continues to try different strategies until one works to solve the problem.

What is "something helped"?

400

This text feature can give the reader clues as to the order that events take place in the text.

What is a timeline?

400

When a character talks in a grumpy tone and says he/she doesn't like about school, we can infer that his perspective about school is ______________________.

What is "he/she doesn't like school"?

400

This is the voice you are using when you are collecting evidence from the text to support your answer to a comprehension question.

What is your "reading" voice?

500

The answer to a problem in a story is called the ______________.

What is a solution?

500

This is the symbol used to represent a solution to a problem.

What is a fist pump?

500

This texture is a visual source of information that teach new and additional details and reveal the same information as the text but in a visually more simple form.

What is a photograph, illustration, diagram, map, or chart?

500

FAST stands for this in relation to a character's perspective.

What is features, actions, says, thinks?

500

This is the voice you are using when you are writing an opinion about a passage you read in class.

What is your "thinking" voice?