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Strategies
100
Who or what a sentence is about.
What is the subject?
100
What the story or paragraph is mostly about.
What is the Main Idea?
100
The issue or problem that the characters in a story are working to solve.
What is the main problem?
100
How the characters feel in a story.
What is mood?
100
The first thing you should do when you are given the passage to read.
What is box the title?
200
Words that show action.
What are verbs?
200
The retelling of a story including the important elements from the beginning, middle, and end.
What is a summary?
200
The obstacles in a story that prevent the characters from solving the main problem.
What is a conflict?
200
Qualities that belong to a character or person, such as trustworthy, responsible, or lazy.
What are character traits?
200
The strategy to help answer summary questions.
What is BME?
300
A small word that takes the place of a noun. Examples: he, she, it, they
What is a pronoun?
300
The time and place in which a story happens.
What is the setting?
300
The point in a story where the reader experiences the most suspense.
What is the climax?
300
Four different ways an author could choose to organize his passage.
What are cause-and-effect, problem-solution, compare and contrast, and chronological order (sequence of events)?
300
The third thing that you should do after you begin your strategies.
What is divide the passage?
400
Words that do not make a complete sentence. Example: I ran up the ladder and.
What is a sentence fragment?
400
The person who the story is mostly about.
Who is the main character?
400
The solution at the end of a story.
What is the resolution?
400
How the author feels about what he is writing.
What is author's tone?
400
Before reading the passage, you should preview these and make notes.
What is reading the questions first?
500
When two complete sentences are joined by only a comma. Example: I am doing great, how are you?
What is a comma splice?
500
The big picture or important message in a story.
What is the theme?
500
All the different parts of a story.
What is the plot?
500
Different ways a passage may be written, such as informative, casual, or businesslike.
What is style?
500
The strategy used to help answer main idea questions.
What are tally marks?