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Reading Strategies
Parts of Speech
Reading Strategies II
Reading Strategies III
Punctutuation
100

What is 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

a punctuation mark indicating a pause between parts of a sentence.

comma

200

The information that help the reader understand the main idea. 

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

a punctuation mark in English that expresses the end of a sentence and sometimes abbreviations

What is a period?

300

To inform, to persuade, to teach, and to entertain are all? 

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 small punctuation mark  placed after a noun to show that the noun owns something.

apostrophe

400

To tell a story briefly 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?

Imagining is okay too.

400

used to give emphasis, present dialogue, introduce lists or text, and clarify composition titles.

colon

500

What is using your prior knowledge and information from the text to make a smart guess?

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 little horizontal line that floats in the middle of a line of text

Dash