Reading Strategies
A guess you make based off CLUES or PICTURES in the text.
What is Prediction?
When characters respond to events in the plot, they respond to actions and interactions with others, which is ______________ AND with their inner thoughts and feelings, which is __________.
What is external? What is internal?
Easily understood or obvious is when something is ___________.
What is evident?
_____________ is a powerful way for people to express emotions, offering insights or new ways of thinking.
What is poetry?
A genre or type of literature in which the characters, plot and setting are imaginary is called ________________.
When you create a PICTURE in your MIND using the clues or words from the text as you read.
What is Visualization?
The _______________ response to events, in turn, shapes the plot as it develops.
What is the character's response?
A _____________ is a form of poetry that is usually written in first person, expressing a single speaker's personal ideas and feelings.
People, animals or creatures in a story are the ______________.
What are characters?
As a reader we make connections when we have something in COMMON with the text.
What are CONNECTIONS?
What is personality and circumstances?
To point out or to serve as a sign or a symbol of something means to _______________.
The voice that talks to the reader in any type of poetry is called the ________________.
What is the speaker?
When a text includes facts and sources that may be cited to support these facts, the text is an __________________ text.
What is informational?
RETELLING what you read in your own WORDS based on text evidence is called ___________________
What is SUMMARIZING?
____________ influences character development and how the characters change during the story.
What is setting?
Something that is alike in appearance or nature, though not identical, it has features that are the same. This term is _________________.
What is similar?
The four R's in poetry are _______________, _____________, ____________, and _________________.
What is Rhyme, Rhythm, Repetition and Refrain.
When a text includes titles, headings and subheadings, these features help to ______________ the text so the reader may easily read and understand the text.
What is organize?
When a reader continuously asks about things happening in the plot or sequence of events and also explains what has happened, using text clues and cite evidence, these two strategies are being used....
What is questioning and inferencing?
Draw the plot diagram, showing the different elements of plot.
Exposition -- setting and characters; rising action -- events that cause problems/conflict; climax -- when the conflict is at its peak; falling action -- when events turn toward the resolution; and denouement/resolution -- how things ended.
Clearly defined or identified is ____________.
Describe the 4 R's...
Rhyme -- when the ending sound of a line has the same vowel sound.
Rhythm -- when the line in a poem has a certain beat or bounce to it, when said.
Repetition -- when a line keeps happening over and over for emphasis in a poem.
Refrain -- when there one or more lines that are repeated after so many lines in a poem.