Reading Anchor Charts
What the story is mostly about
What is central idea?
Organizing ideas
What is prewriting?
Describing how things are alike and different.
What is comparison and contrasting?
Good readers do this to check their understanding while reading.
What is monitor?
This type of writing explains or provides information about a topic.
What is an expository essay?
A short response to what your read.
What is summarize?
Using ideas to write a rough draft.
What is drafting?
Explain what happened and how it happened.
What is cause and effect?
Readers do this when they make something they do not understand clearer.
What is clarify?
This part of an expository essay that introduces the reader to what your essay will be about.
What is a thesis statement?
Entertain, Persuade, Inform
What is the author's purpose?
Making changes to improve your writing.
What is revising?
First, second, third.
What is sequential or logical order?
This strategy involves reading a difficult section of text again.
What is rereading?
These are the three main parts of an expository essay.
What are the introduction, body, and conclusion?
Characters, setting, plot( problem and solution), events
What is the literary elements/story elements?
Correcting your mistakes.
What is editing?
To show a problem and how it is solved.
What is problem and solution?
These surrounding words and sentences can help readers determine the meaning of an unfamiliar word.
What are context clues?
This part of the writing process improves ideas, organization, and sentences before editing begins.
What is revising?
first person, second person, third person
Author's point of view
What is publishing?
Before, first, next, last, after, finally.
What is sequential/ logical order?
These are two resources readers can use when context clues and rereading do not clarify an unfamiliar word.
What are a dictionary and a glossary?
These are used in the body paragraphs to explain and support the thesis.
What are facts, details, examples, quotations, and research information?