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CSET
Reading Strategies
100
building something
What is construct?
100
the turning point of a story, the most exciting part
What is climax?
100
could be a person, an animal, or an object
What is Character?
100
your answer to the question/prompt
What is claim?
100
looking at the text or story and trying to guess what will happen next or in later chapters
What is predicting?
200
to form by combining parts or elements
What is synthesize?
200
the beginning of the story, elements such as character, setting and conflict are introduced
What is exposition?
200
these have the problem of the story
What are main (or major) characters?
200
what you give to prove your claim
What is evidence?
200
trying to be a character in the story to see the situation from his or her own point of view.
What is making connections?
300
not directly stated
What is implicit?
300
tension rises here
What is rising action?
300
these appear to help the main character solve their problems
What are minor characters?
300
the phrase part of the sentence used to show where your evidence came from
What is set up?
300
trying to see the story or text in your head
What is visualization or picturing?
400
to examine two or more objects, ideas, people, etc., in order to note similarities, and differences.
What is compare?
400
the part of the story in which the conflicts are working themselves out
What is falling action?
400
these affect stories' events and conflicts
What are characters' qualities?
400
sort of like a concluding statement, used to re-state your claim
What is tie in?
400
making educated guesses based on your experiences and what is in the text
What is inference?
500
features or qualities that help identify, describe, or recognize something
What are characteristics?
500
sequence of events in a story
What is plot?
500
internal conflicts happen here
What is inside main characters' heads?
500
an organizational strategy designed to give a complete and easy to understand answer.
What is CSET?
500
restating the text in your own words, but only giving the most important parts of the information
What is summarizing?