Reading Strategies
The central point or big picture concept that the reader should walk away with.
What is a main idea
Ted Lasso
What is Mrs. Morehouse's favorite TV show?
a punctuation mark indicating a pause between parts of a sentence.
comma
The third planet from the sun
What is Earth?
a punctuation mark in English that expresses the end of a sentence and sometimes abbreviations
What is a period?
Kennedy
What is Mrs. Morehouse's maiden name?
Stating how you think or feel about something.
What is an opinion?
a small punctuation mark placed after a noun to show that the noun owns something.
apostrophe
To tell a story concisely and in your own words.
What is summarizing?
Drew
What is the name of Mrs. Morehouse's husband?
Picturing what a setting and what the characters look like in your mind.
What is visualizing?
Imagining is okay too.
used to give emphasis, present dialogue, introduce lists or text, and clarify composition titles.
colon
When an author doesn't give the reader all the information, and the reader has to make an educated guess based on their prior knowledge and the text.
What is an inference?
Patrick and Charles
What is the name of Mrs. Morehouse's brothers?
a little horizontal line that floats in the middle of a line of text
Dash