Skills
Vocabulary
Nonfiction
Strategy
Fiction
100
Statement of the author's point of view.
Claim
100
Clues from text + what I already know
What is inference?
100
The elements you preview that include: diagrams, pictures with captions, subtitles, words in bold.
What is text features?
100
Previewing the text features.
What is BEFORE you read?
100
The most exciting part of the story where the main character changes.
What is climax?
200
Use context clues to determine meaning, what is meaning? The BRAWL, or fight, on the playground got both kids sent to the principal.
What is fight?
200
Widely held opinion.
What is common place assertion?
200
A passage that tries to persuade or convince you to do something or change you mind about something.
What is persuasive text?
200
The kind of summary for fiction that should be applied to summary and plot questions.
What is Someone Wanted But So Then?
200
The struggle between two forces.
What is conflict?
300
Identify POV: “When Jane and Elizabeth were alone, the former, who had been cautious in her praise of Mr. Bingley before, expressed to her sister how very much she admired him.”
What is third person point of view?
300
Perspective from which the story is told.
What is point of view?
300
3 reasons the author's write:
What is persuade, inform, and entertain?
300
What you do during reading strategy.
What is stop and jot?
300
The lesson that can be learned from the text.
What is theme?
400
What can you infer from this sentence: Sarah was running late for school and forget her homework.
What is Sarah is having a bad morning.
400
Causes something to happen.
What is triggers?
400
The most important statement in a paragraph.
What is main idea?
400
Type of summary used after reading nonfiction.
What is BME (beginning, middle, end)?
400
The conversation between characters.
What is dialogue?
500
What type of figurative language? Ms. Saenz is as sweet as pie.
What is simile?
500
compares two things without using "like" or "as"
What is metaphor?
500
Name 3 different types of text structure.
What is compare/contrast, problem & solution, sequence.
500
How to approach a paired passage.
What is: 1. read the 1st passage and answer 1st passage questions 2. read the 2nd passage and answer 2nd passage questions 3. answer questions to both 1st and 2nd passage.
500
Appeals to the five senses: taste, touch, hear, smell, and see.
What is imagery?