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| highlight titles, subheadings, bold print or underlined words, make a prediction, and highlight key words in the questions skim over the story and look up any words you don't know. |
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| read the story through. Read the story again, but this time write the main idea in the notes section |
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| Answer the questions carefully. Eliminate “dumb” answer choices. Go back to the story and check answers. Write the number of the paragraph that influenced your answers. Skip difficult questions, circle them, and come back later to answer them. |
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comparison using like or as
metaphor: comparison without using like or as |
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| repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words |
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| when the story is interrupted with something from the past |
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| when the author hints about something to come in the story. |
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when the unexpected happens.
Personification: giving human traits or qualities to nonhuman things |
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| when the author uses descriptive words that help you to picture, smell, hear, taste, or feel it |
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| a letter or group of letters added to the beginning of a word to change its meaning |
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a base from which is word is built by adding word parts such as prefixes and suffixes
analogy: is a way of comparing things that are basically alike. |
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| words that have the same or, smilar meanings |
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| words that have opposite meanings |
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| a speacial expression that is peculiar grammatically and cannot be understood literally |
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| how to find the main idea |
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| identify the topic, what does the author tell us about the topic |
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| take what is in the story and what you already know(in your brain already), think about it, and come up with the answer |
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| persuade, inform, entertain, explain |
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