Fables, Tall Tales, and Fairy Tales are a part of this genre.
What is Folktales
100
The first thing you do before reading a passage or story.
What is see what type of story it is or how it is written? For example, is it a diary entry, non-fiction article, magazine article, fable, etc.
100
You must go back into the story or passage and underline or circle this.
What is the evidence or the answer to the question?
100
What type of word has more than one meaning listed and you must figure out which meaning is used in the story.
What is a multiple meaning word?
100
Sentences that can be proven either true or false.
What are facts?
200
These stories originated in Ancient Greece and explain how and why things happened. Gods and Godesses are responsible for teaching lessons to people in this genre.
What are myths?
200
This is the least amount of times you should read the story or passage.
What is two times?
200
Circle and use these when the questions asks you to find what and unfamiliar word means.
What are context clues?
200
This word is a word that means the same, or close to same, as another word.
What is a synonym?
200
This type of question usually asks why something happens, or what happened. You can use the skill _______ leads to (or SO) ________.
What is cause and effect?
300
This type of story is based on true facts about people or places, and true events. It's purpose is to inform the reader.
What is non-fiction?
300
True or False? You should only read the question before going back into the story to find your answer.
What is FALSE?
300
True or False. You should always underline important key words in questions.
What is TRUE?
300
The correct answer for a summarizing question must have this.
What is BME? (A sentence that summarizes the beginning, a sentence that summarizes the middle, and a sentence that summarizes the end of a story.)
300
This word means the opposite of another word.
What is an antonym?
400
The main purpose of this genre is to entertain. These stories are not based on true events, but contain people and events that do not really exist.
What is fiction?
400
You put this beside the answer choice you have PROVEN to be correct.
What is a check mark?
400
You use this strategy the question asks you to fill in an empty box in a flow chart. Hint: The question wants you to put the events in order.
What is the DOT strategy?
400
When the question asks you what the story is mostly about, you must know this.
What is main idea?
400
For a cause and effect question, you have to do this to find the answer.
What is go back in the story and find it?
500
The purpose of writing that is trying to get you to believe or do a certain way. Advertisements usually do this.
What is persuade?
500
True or False. Once you think you have found the correct answer in the answer choices, you don't have to read the rest of the answer choices.
What is FALSE?
500
You do this once you have underlined your evidence in the story or passage.
What is write the question number beside the evidence?
500
Sentences that tell you how someone believes or feels.
What are opinions?
500
This type of question has an answer that is NOT written right in front of you. You have to use what you already know about the topic, and key words the author gives you to figure it out.