Close Reading
These are the 5 W's that help us with reading.
What is Who, What, When, Where, and Why?
This is what the text is MAINLY about.
What is main idea?
Guessing what happens next in the text is called?
What is predicting?
True or False: Certain words have multiple meanings.
True.
How an author writes or presents the text is called what?
What is text structure?
To find information that is NOT directly stated means you need to what?
What is infer?
The main idea can be placed in these areas of the text.
What is the beginning, middle, and end?
These are people or animals who do certain tasks and events in the story.
What are characters?
What is a dictionary?
This type of text contains an event that CAUSES another event to happen.
What is cause and effect?
Fiction is fake, Nonfiction is:
What is Real?
The main idea can be supported by what?
What is supporting details/details?
This consists of the when and where.
What is the setting?
This type of analogy uses "like" and "as" to make a comparison.
What is a simile?
When a text has information and events written in a specific order, it is called what?
What is sequence of events?
What is clues?
A short paragraph that tells you what happened in the text is what?
What is a summary?
These two items are WHY something happens and WHAT happens because of it.
What is cause and effect?
Visualizing uses these 5 things.
What is the 5 senses?
Fiction and nonfiction are known as what?
What is genre?
Inferencing requires the reader to be a what?
What is a detective?
The summary contains the major character, the setting, the problem, and these 3 items.
What is the first event, the second event, and the third event?
Authors use these specific words or phrases to let us know we're using cause and effect.
What are signal words?
Creating pictures that you see in your head is called what?
What is visualizing?
Myths, fables, and fairy tales are labeled as what kind of genre?
What is fiction?