READING
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STRATEGIES
• MAKE INFERENCES
• MAIN IDEA
• Author's purpose
• make connections
• synthesize
• VISUALIZE
• make and confirm predictions
• text structures
• point of view
• plot
• literary elements
MAKE INFERENCES
Authors may not say everything in a text.
When you make inferences, you use clues to
make a smart guess about something the
author does not tell you. Use clues from the
story and your prior knowledge to make an
inference.
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Evidence from Background Inference
the text knowledge
MAIN IDEA
The main idea is what the text is mostly about.
Evaluate details to determine key ideas that
support the central idea.
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AUTHOR’S PURPOSE
How can you figure out the author's purpose?
First, think about the genre and then ask
questions about what you read. The author's
purpose is the reason why the author wrote
the text and helps us recognize the author’s
message and
PERSUADE
read with more
INFORM
understanding.
ENTERTAIN
The author tries to The author gives The author wants
persuade the facts and shares readers to enjoy a
reader to think or information about a story.
act in a certain way. topic.
MAKE CONNECTIONS
Good readers make connections with texts
that they read.
TEXT TO SELF TEXT TO TEXT
Connect the text Connect the text
to your life and to another text
experiences. you have read.
TEXT TO WORLD TEXT TO MEDIA
Connect the Connect the text
text to real- to what you
world events. have seen or
heard in the
media.
SYNTHESIZE
When you synthesize, your thinking changes
and you form new ideas.
At first I was While reading I By the end I was
thinking... was thinking... thinking...
because... because... because...
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What I know What I'm learning New
understanding
VISUALIZE
When we read, we must use our senses to
form images in our minds.
What do I see
in my mind?
what would what would
i feel? i hear?
what would what would
i smell? i taste?
MAKE AND CONFIRM PREDICTIONS
A prediction is an assumption you make about
what is going to happen in a selection or story.
BEFORE READING WHILE READING AFTER READING
• Look at the cover and • Stop and think about • Confirm or adjust
read the title. what you read. your prediction.
• Think about the • Reread confusing • Summarize and
characteristics of the parts. synthesize main
genre, text structure, • Create mental themes and ideas.
text features and images to visualize • Analyze information
illustrations. what is happening. from the text.
• Think about what you • Make connections • Ask yourself: Was I
know about the topic. with what you read. right?
• Then predict what the • What do you think
text will be about. will happen next?
TEXT STRUCTURE
The way in which the author organizes the text.
The structure of the text helps us clearly
understand and predict events.
compare and contrast cause and effect sequence Problem and solution
Describe how things are Explain what happened Explain the events in order Explain how a problem is
alike and how they are and why it happened solved
different Transition words: before,
Transition words: because, first, next, then, last, after Transition words: problem,
Transition words: but, both, so, in order to, as a result solution, difficulty, the
however, and answer is
differences differences
similarities
cause effect first next last problem solution
POINT OF VIEW
The perspective in which the narrator tells the
story. Who is talking? Who tells the story?
FIRST PERSON THIRD PERSON
A story told from the A story told from the
first person point of third person point of
view is told by a view has an external
narrator who is a narrator. The narrator is
character in the story. not a character and can
Readers learn about the tell readers everything
other characters from the characters say, do,
what they tell the and think.
narrator.
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PLOT
The plot is the sequence of events that take
place in a story. It includes the characters,
setting, and events. climax
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Essential The conclusion to
background the story that
information about reveals the solution
the characters and to the problem or
setting. conflict.
LITERARY ELEMENTS
Literary elements are the different parts that
make up a story.
CHARACTERS SETTING
The people and animals in a Where and
story. What do they say and when the story
think? What do they do? takes place.
What do the other
characters say and think
about them?
PLOT EVENTS
Conflict: The main The events that occur in
problem that the the story to change a
characters face. character, affect the
Solution: How the mood, or build the plot.
conflict or problem is
resolved.
