Reading Skills
Reading Strategies
Speaking and Listening/Poetry
6 Components of Language Arts
Writing
100

Automatic abilities readers develop to understand text.



What are reading skills?

100

Restating the most important

ideas from a text concisely in your

own words.

What is summarizing?

100

a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language.

What is poetry?
100

understanding spoken language

What is listening?

100

a piece of literature (text) that can be read and reread for specific learning purposes.

What is a mentor text?

200

deliberate, conscious plans readers apply to build meaning.

What are reading strategies?

200

Asking and refining questions

before, during, and after reading

to drive deeper understanding.

What is questioning?

200

A comparison of two unlike things that have something in common using like or as

What is a simile?

200

Decoding and comprehending written text

What is reading?

200

a visual display of information and that helps students organize and connect information.

What is a graphic organizer?

300

Identifying key parts of a story

(setting, characters, problem,

events, solution) and the order in

which they occur.

What is story elements and sequencing?

300

Anticipating what will happen

next by combining background

knowledge with textual evidence.

What is predicting/prior knowledge?

300

Structured form of discussion where students are encouraged to engage in meaningful, respectful conversations that promote deeper understanding and learning.

What is accountable talk?

300

presenting information through images, either alone or along with spoken or written words

What is visually representing?

300

A step in the writing process, the writer puts pen/pencil to paper or fingers to keyboard and begins to compose their ideas.

What is drafting?

400

Examining a character’s traits,

motivations, relationships, and

growth across a text.

What is character analysis?

400

Creating mental images using

sensory language and details in

the text.

What is visualizing?

400

a traditional Japanese form of poetry that has three lines with a 5-7-5 syllable pattern.

What is a haiku?

400

understanding visual images and connecting them to accompanying spoken or written words

What is viewing?

400

A step in the writing process: a detailed review focused on correcting grammar, punctuation, spelling, and other mechanical aspects of the writing.

What is revising?

500

Using text clues plus prior

knowledge to figure out ideas not

directly stated.

What is making inferences?

500

Resolving confusion and

combining new ideas with

existing knowledge to form a new

understanding.

What is clarifying/synthesizing?

500

Words that imitate or sound like what they mean

What is onomatopoeia?

500

An inquiry-based teaching method that improves a student's ability to describe, analyze, and interpret imagery and information through observing and discussing visual art.

What is the VTS (Visual Thinking Strategy)?

500

These are a type of what type of writing assessment:

  • Journals, quick writes/exit tickets, graphic organizers or writing frames, peer feedback, teacher observations, and anecdotal notes

What is informal assessment?