This is the first thing you should analyze when given a new passage to read.
100
The events that happen in the story; it is the driving force of narrative.
What is the plot?
100
These are the 4 major genres in literature.
What are Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry, and Drama?
100
When reading a story, this is the method of thinking about something you have experienced similar to the story.
What is a text to self connection?
100
This is what the story is about; the overall point.
What is the main idea?
200
According to the P.L.A.N. acronym, this is the step in which you decipher how the passage is organized and where your various sources of information might be.
What is LOCATE?
200
The order in which things occur in a story
What is sequence of events?
200
To represent some non-human thing as having human characteristics.
What is personification?
200
This is the appearance, personality, or behavior of a character.
What is a personality traits?
200
Something that can be proved or disproved.
What is a fact?
300
Good readers use this strategy to give them a purpose for reading. It is used before the begin to read, while they are reading and after reading.
What is questioning?
300
!!DAILY DOUBLE!!
The time and place in which a story takes place.
300
The repetition of initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables.
What is Alliteration?
300
!!!!DAILY DOUBLE!!!!
This includes to persuade, inform, and entertain.
300
What a person thinks or feels about a subject.
What is opinion?
400
This is the process of combining your own background knowledge with the content of the text.
What is inferencing?
400
What you think might happen next based on what you have already read.
What is a predicition?
400
The language that evokes one or all of the five senses.
What is imagery or sensory language?
400
These are used to draw attention or emphasize certain aspects of the text; example: charts, maps, headings, bolding, italics, bulleting.
What are text features?
400
The process of discussing how two things are similar.
What is Comparing?
500
In the acronym TPCASTT, thisis what the C stands for.
What is connotation?
500
DO NOT say moral or lesson. This is the important message of a story
What is theme?
500
The attitude the writer takes toward a subject or character.
What is tone?
500
In literature, this is a reference to another well known piece.
What is an allusion?
500
The process of discussing how two or more things are different.