Poetry
Literary Genre
Miscellaneous
7th Grade Knowledge
Strategic Reading Plan
100
Comparing two unlike things saying one is the other - does NOT use like or as. Example: The ducks marched in a soldier's parade.
What is metaphor?
100

A type of text that tells a story.


What is a narrative?

Extra points: What are the thinking frames for narrative texts?

100
The vantage point from which a story is told...can be 1st, 3rd limited, 3rd objective, or omniscient
What is point of view. Extra points: define all four types of point of views.
100
The time and place where a story takes place.
What is the setting?
100
What are three lifelines you can use to help you understand a complicated text?
Simple paragraphs or sentences

Images
Graphs/charts/diagrams
Footnotes
Context
Defined vocabulary
Concluding phrases
Title

200
Comparing two unlike objects using like or as. Example: You smell like a pig!
What is simile?
200
A type of text that teaches readers or gives information.
What is informational text?

Extra points: What are the thinking frames for informational texts?

200
The story of a person's life written by another person
What is biography?
200
When an author uses descriptive language to show what something looks like in a piece of literature.
What is imagery?
200
How do you prevent yourself from being tricked by difficult answer choices?
Cover your answers and match them to the idea in your head
300
Poetry without regular meter or rhyme.
What is free verse?
300
A type of text that usually has rhyme or rhythm and captures emotion in few words.
What is poetry?

Extra points: What are the thinking frames for poetry?

300
The story of someone's life written by the person who experienced it.
What is autobiography?
300
The use of words to appeal to the five senses: see, smell, taste, touch, hear.
What is sensory language?
300
What does it mean to invest in a question?
Annotate, 
400
Rhymes within the lines of poetry.
What is internal rhyme?
400
A work of literature that teaches a moral.
What is a fable?
400
Giving animals or non-human things human characteristics.
What is personification.
400
The use of words that echo their sense: crash, bang, boom
What is onomatopoeia?
400
What is the first part of the third step (multiple choice) of the SRP?
Cover up the answer choices
500
The repetition of letters or sounds at the beginning of words.

Example: She sells seashells by the seashore.

What is alliteration?
500
A work of literature that explains something about the world and involves gods and goddesses.
What is a myth?
500
The message or deeper meaning you get from a story or novel.

Example: Those who are hurt often hurt others.

What is theme?
500
When the author stops the action of a story to tell what has happened in the past
What is flashback?
500
How do you prove your answer is correct?
Find the best evidence to support - underline and label question number