The strategy where you use prior knowledge to guess what you will be reading about or what will happen next, using illustrations, titles, topic sentences and key words.
What is Prediction?
100
This organizational structure is when information you read is in order based on time.
What is Chronological order?
100
The problem in the story.
What is conflict?
100
The time or place in which a story takes place.
What is the setting?
100
A traditional story that attempts to answer basic questions about human nature, origins of the world, mysteries of nature, and social customs. For example, "Prometheus" is a Greek myth explains how humans received the gift of fire.
What is a myth?
200
This is where you connect information and events from what you read to experience and to other texts and sources. (such as another story, article, or media)
What is Making Connections?
200
When information is organized by showing the similarities and differences of two or more things in a text.
What is Compare and Contrast?
200
When the story is told from the point of view of the person who had the experience first hand (A character within the story). The speaker uses pronouns such as "I", "We", "our", or "us".
What is first person point of view?
200
The story is told from the point of view of a character who is not a part of the story. They use pronouns such as "They", "Them", "He", or "She."
What is third person point of view?
200
The traditions, customs, and stories that are passed down within a culture. It includes various types of literature such as legends, folk tales, myths, and fables.
What is folklore?
300
This is where you use prior knowledge and clues to guess things such as how the character is feeling, or what they will do, when it is not directly stated in the text.
What is Inference?
300
When information is organized by explaining what happened and what made it happen. Key words can be: because of, the reason, the outcome, caused, etc.
What is Cause and Effect relationships?
300
The point of view where the narrator only knows the thoughts and actions of one character, the main character.
What is limited point of view?
300
The point of view where the narrator can tell you and describe the thoughts and actions of many characters in the story.
What is omniscient point of view?
300
A story handed down from the past about a specific person, usually someone of heroic accomplishments. They usually have some basis in historical fact. For example, "Young Arthur" is about King Arthur, but not all of the story is true.
What is a Legend?
400
This is where you ask questions to clarify text or ask questions that you are thinking of while reading the text.
What is Questioning or Monitoring?
400
When information is organized by explaining something in an order that makes sense to the reader. (explaining how something happened from beginning to end) Some key words could be: first, then, next, etc.
What is Logical order?
400
A message about life or human nature that the writer shares with the reader. In many cases the reader has to infer what the message is based on events such as what the characters in the story have done or learned, or what the reader learns from reading the story.
What is theme?
400
The reason the author is writing the article or story. Usually to convince or persuade you to believe his point of view or to give information about a specific topic.
What is author's purpose?
400
Sentences or facts that support the main idea.
What are supporting details?
500
This is where you imagine in your mind what you are reading.
What is Picturing or Visualizing?
500
This organizational structure has key words such as: like, unlike, similarly, on the other hand, however, whereas, different, while, in contrast, etc.
What is Compare and Contrast?
500
A pattern of end rhymes in a poem. It is noted by assigning a letter of the alphabet, beginning with a, to each line. Lines that rhyme are given the same letter.
Example:
It was many and many a year ago, (a)
In a kingdom by the sea, (b)
That a maiden there lived whom you may know (a)
By the name of Annabel Lee: (b)
What is rhyme scheme?
500
A group of two or more lines that form a unit in a poem. (like a paragraph in a story) Each unit may have the same number of lines, or the number of lines may vary.
What is stanza?
500
The main focus or point of the text (article, paragraph, etc.) that you are reading. What the text is mainly about overall.