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Reading Strategies
Parts of Speech
Reading Strategies II
Reading Strategies III
Parts of Speech
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The central point or big picture concept that the reader should walk away with.

What is a main idea

100
Names a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
100
The order in which events take place in a story.
What is sequencing?
100
Activating your prior knowledge.
What is a prediction?
100

Tells who or what a sentence is mostly about.

What is a subject?

200
Pieces of information that help the reader understand the text.
What is are details?
200
A word used to describe a noun.
What is an adjective?
200
A true statement.
What is a fact?
200
Finding the meaning of an unfamiliar word using information from the text.
What is a context clue?
200

Tells what the subject is doing.

What is a predicate?

300
To inform, to persuade, to entertain.
What is author's purpose?
300
A word used to describe a verb.
What is an adverb?
300
An action and a reaction in a text.
What is cause and effect?
300

Stating how you think or feel about something.

What is an opinion?

300
A sentence that makes a statement.
What is a declarative sentence?
400

To tell a story concisely and in your own words.

What is summarizing?

400
A word that takes the place of a noun.
What is a pronoun?
400
The way to show how things are alike and different.
What is compare and contrast?
400
Picturing what a setting and what the characters look like in your mind.
What is visualizing?
400
A sentence that shows expression.
What is an exclamatory sentence?
500
When an author doesn't give the reader all the information and the reader has to make assumptions.
What is an inference?
500
A word that shows possession.
What is a possessive noun?
500

Parts of a story that include setting, plot, and characterization.

What is story element?

500
A person in a story.
What is a character?
500
A sentence that asks something.
What is a question?