Reading Strategies
Prewriting
Non-Fiction
Fiction
Inference
100
This SpringBoard strategy is used for poetry analysis.
What is TPCASTT?
100
This organizational strategy helps you see all your info in one place
What is a brainstorm circle?
100
This Springboard strategy is useful to analyze nonfiction.
What is SOAPSTone?
100
This visual maps out the parts of a story.
What is a plot diagram?
100
"To infer" is this level of Bloom's verbs.
What is second?
200
This reading strategy helps with basic understanding as you visualize what you've read.
What is drawing/images?
200
This type of organization helps order your main ideas.
What is a flow map?
200
This is the controlling idea of a text.
What is thesis?
200
This SpringBoard strategy helps you derive symbolism from fiction.
What is S.I.F.T.
200
These hints help you infer the meaning of an unknown word as you read.
What are context clues?
300
This method of poetry analysis requires putting the poem into your own words.
What is paraphrasing?
300
A good author considers this element of their work before writing, often mapped out in RAFT.
What is author's purpose?
300
These are the two purposes of non-fictional text.
What are to inform and to instruct?
300
This tool can be used to point out important parts of a quest of a protagonist.
What is Hero's Journey?
300
This is required for good inferencing.
What is textual evidence?
400
Adding this Humanities element to inferences of the text helps add a global perspective.
What is theme?
400
This organizational strategy is used to identify whole/part relationships.
What is a brace map?
400
This strategy helps decide author's purpose.
What is R.A.F.T.?
400
This element, found at the end of a story, makes it engaging and emotionally satisfying.
What is conflict resolution?
400
Inferencing requires adding these two elements to basic reading.
What is Text + Brain?
500
A reader pays close attention to character dialogue to infer this literary device.
What is characterization?
500
An author considers this element when writing, appearing as the "A" in RAFT.
What is audience?
500
This document is required for a research paper.
What is works cited page?
500
This society invented tragedy and comedy.
What are the Greeks?
500
Authors use this literary technique to plant clues on something that will happen later.
What is foreshadow?