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Good Reader Skills
Comprehension Strategies
Punctuation
Test Vocabulary Words
Figurative Language
100
What I know plus what I read...
What is inference
100
Usually placed at the end of a sentence.
What is a period?
100
To guess based on the hidden meaning or to make a decision about the information.
What is to infer?
100
A comparison of two unlike things using the words like, as or than.
What is a simile?
200
Placing the major events of a story in order from beginning to end.
What is sequencing?
200
Used before or during reading. Students make educated guesses based on their prior knowledge to determine what will happen in a story.
What is prediction?
200
After you ask a question you better place me at the end...
What is a question mark?
200
To paint a picture with words or to tell or write about.
What is to describe?
200
Giving human qualities to non-human things.
What is personification?
300
This is the lesson learned from a story or passage.
What is theme?
300
Do this when you put what you read into context. Shows how the story or passage relates to my life.
What is making connections?
300
You normally use us to show someone's exact words spoken in a story.
What are quotation marks?
300
To find ways things are similar and different.
What is compare/contrast?
300
Comparing two things by using one kind of object or using in place of another to suggest the likeness between them.
What is a metaphor?
400
Who or what the story is about and where and when the story takes place?
What is character and setting?
400
This involves the ability of readers to make mental images of a story as a way to better understand what they are reading.
What is visualization?
400
Usually used to show a series or maybe a pause in a sentence.
What is a comma?
400
To expand or to add details to.
What is to elaborate?
400
Naming a thing or an action by imitating the sound associated with it. (Examples are buzz, hiss or wham)
What is onomatopoeia?
500
The events that make up a story or, in other words... Exposition, Conflict, Rising Action, Climax and Resolution.
What is the plot?
500
Putting the story in my own words.
What is summarizing?
500
I am used when you want to join two words.
What is a hyphen?
500
To examine methodically or to break a story down into parts and tell about the parts.
What is to analyze?
500
The wild and woolly walrus waits and wonders when we’ll walk by...
What is alliteration?