Strategies
What is one thing you can do BEFORE reading the actual passage?
Read over the question stems.
What skill looks at rhyme scheme, sensory details, figurative language, and rhythm.
Poetry
How does the author structure the essay about red birds and blue birds?
Compare and Contrast
Talking animals that teach you a lesson.
Folklore/Fables
The narrator is a character in the story.
First Person POV
What should you do if you are unsure of the meaning of a word?
Use the dictionary tool.
What skill should you use to summarize fiction?
SWBST
What are some clue OPINION words?
think, believe, feel, worst, best
Time travel, space, aliens, futuristic...
Science Fiction
The way an author feels about a topic.
Author's Perspective
Once you think you are finished, what should you do?
Check over your answers!
This skill involves stage directions, lines, acts, scenes, and a cast of characters.
Drama
This is what a story, selection, or paragraph is mostly about.
Main Idea
A story about something that could really happen.
Realistic fiction
The narrator is NOT a character in the story.
Third Person POV
What should you use the notes tool for?
Annotating your thinking while you are reading.
Use this skill when combining clues from the text with your own knowledge.
Inferencing
Look for these words that surround an unknown word to figure out the meaning of a word.
Context Clues
Magical worlds, made up creatures, wizards..
Fantasy Fiction
An author writes fiction primarily to... (P, I, or E)
Entertain
When looking for what a paragraph is mostly about, what should you do?
Go back and reread that paragraoh.
This skill is often referred to as the BIG idea. It shows how a character changes and what they learned in the story.
Theme
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
Metaphor
Has to do with a certain event in the past.
Historical Fiction
The purpose of informational text.
To inform