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Reading Strategies
Literature
Informational Text
Drama and Poetry
Miscellaneous
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On a multiple choice question test the answer choices typically are ....
What is 2 silly choices, one that is distracting and then the correct one you must prove with text evidence. S S D A
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Explain tone and mood.
What is Tone is the author's attitude about their subject. Mood is the way the reader feels.
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Describing a text's main idea, important details, and overall meaning in just a few sentences.
What is summarizing
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In a play, the conversation between characters; it advances the plot and reveals conflict.
What is dialogue
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Words, phrases, or sentences around a word that help determine an unknown word's meaning
What are context clues
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Good readers make connections. List four was we practice making connections in class and give one example of each.
What is text to text, text to self, text to world and text to media.
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Why an author writes a story in first person point of view.
What is to show how the character feels.
200
Examples of text structures
What are sequential order, cause and effect, problem and solution, description, timeline
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Placing words on a line by itself, repeating lines and phrases, and changing the appearance of words (bolding, italics, font size)
What is the ways an author will emphasize something.
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Clues the author gives the reader about what to expect in the future of the story
What is foreshadowing
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Root, Tree, Forest. Name 5 examples of forest questions. Bonus points *how explain how using this strategy has helped you.
What is Root- you can answer right away. Tree- must go back to one specific part of the text, example paragraph 7, or stanzas 10-12, or the map on page 2. Forest- you must understand the entire passage, example summary questions, theme questions, author's purpose questions, text structure questions, inferencing questions.
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How do we write a summary for a piece of literature.
What is Somebody Wanted But So Then. You must also make sure your summary includes important information from Beginning Middle and End.
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A speech or editorial that defends someone's claim
What is an argument or persuasive text
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For the N in T.M.N.T-> the two things in 7th grade we need to Notice.
What are graphical elements and figurative language.
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The strategy we use to analyze poetry and can be used for all types of literature
What is T.M.N.T -> *and what they stand for
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During reading strategies
What is underlining main ideas, circling key terms, staring key details, writing in the margins, using thinkmarks. *bonus two examples of thinkmarks
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How do we analyze the story's characters to understand their traits and motivations.
We look at their F.A.S.T feelings actions speech and thoughts. Bonus which two are internal and which two are external.
400
Text that explains, describes, or informs
What is expository
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Three ways that the author uses figurative and sensory language.
What are creates imagery, appeals to your senses, and suggest mood.
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Can be proven with data, observations, and reliable sources
What is a factual claim
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P-V-C-Q-C-E
What is good readers do these things: P- preview, look at all Parts, predict, V- visualize as you read, C- make connections, Q- ask questions before during and after, C- clarify confusion, E- evaluate
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What do we include in our Story Map? hint * 12 things
What is setting, main characters (protagonist and antagonist), conflict, plot diagram- introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, exposition and theme.
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The charts, graphs, maps, pictures, subtitles, headings the author includes to help you better understand the text.
What are graphical components.
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How we determine theme
What is 1. look at the characters, 2. how do they change or grow, what did they learn, 3. what can we all learn
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A true story based on someone's life with literary elements.
What is literary non-fiction