R.C.S. 1
Reading a text again to double check information or understand better.
What is reread?
Looking for true pieces of information in a text.
What is finding facts?
Anticipate what will happen in the text or story.
What is making predictions?
The narrative voice through which an author tells a story.
What is POV?
The sequence of events in a story?
What is plot diagram?
Read quickly down the page to focus on titles, headings, subheadings and words in bold to find the most important ideas in a text.
What is skimming?
Hints that an author gives to help define a difficult or unusual word.
What is context clues?
A conclusion made from facts in a text.
What is inference?
The narrator relates only their own thoughts, feelings, and knowledge about various situations and the other characters.
What is third-Person POV Limited
The protagonist of the story is...
What is the main character?
A restatement of a text, passage, or work giving the meaning in another form.
What is paraphrasing?
Important information that tells more about the overall idea of a paragraph or section of a text.
What is the main idea?
What you already know about a topic.
What is prior knowledge?
The narrator knows all of the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the story.
What is third-Person POV Omniscient?
A character or situation opposing the main character.
What is the antagonist?
To give a brief statement of the main points of a text.
What is summarizing?
Details that support the topic sentence in a paragraph. These details can be reasons, descriptions, examples, explanations or comparisons.
What is supporting details?
Bring ideas together to make a new idea.
What is synthesize?
A struggle between two opposing forces.
What is conflict?
The author of the story introduces the setting, the main character and the initial conflict.
What is the exposition?
Read quickly down the page, seeking specific words and phrases to locate specific information in a text.
What is scanning?
To form a visual image in your mind by using your 5 senses.
What is visualize?
Connect what you read to what you already know.
What is making connections?
The writer’s attitude toward the subject matter or audience of a literary work.
What is tone?
The turning point or the most intense moment of a story.
What is climax?