St. Adalbert’s Grade 7

Reading Comprehension

Preview. Visualize. Question. KWL Summarize. GIST Connect. TTT TTS TTW Understand Author’s Purpose. PIE Identify Text Structure. Make Inferences. Predict. Use details to support generalizations. Respond and Evaluate.

Reading StrategiesWhat Good Reader’s Do!

See Hear Taste Smell Feel

Template

Visualize

What does this mean? I wonder what happened…

Question

Question Web

Who? What? Where? When? How?

GIST Template

Summarize

Amelia Earhart

Paraphrase Shrinking Notes Crayon Notes

Summarize - Activity

Text to Self

Connect

Reactions

Connect

Cue Cards

Connect

Sequence of Events Cause and Effect Problem and Solution Compare and Contrast Chronological Order

WebsitesSignal Words and Graphic Organizers

Text Structure

Filling in information not directly stated from the CLUES and WHAT YOU KNOW

Predictions Interactive Quia Quiz Context Clues Context Clues

Inference

1. What can you conclude from this sentence?Two children were walking in the woods?

Automatic AssumptionReasoned Conclusion

What details can we add to imply a bad ending or a good ending without actually revealing it?

2. Boy: “I just saw your best friend and she dyed her hair purple”.

Girl: No way

Did the girl believe him? Why or why not?How can you lead the reader to think one way or

the other without revealing it? If it were a play, what would you do?

Try It Out

Slideshare

What do you observe?What do you think happened?

Inference or Observation?

Author’s Purpose - PIE

Persuade

Entertain

Inform/Instruct

Elements of Plot Characterization Setting Theme Imagery Figurative Language Irony

Websites Literary Elements Literary Terms

Literary Elements

Exposition Conflict Rising Action Climax Falling Action Resolution

Websites Plot Diagram Plot Interactive (Jack and the Bean Stalk) Test Your Skills (Cinderella) Name That Literary Element game

Elements of Plot

Plot

Speech What does the character say? How does the character speak?

Thoughts What is revealed through the character’s private thoughts and feelings?

Effect on others toward the character. What is revealed through the character’s effect on other people? How do other characters feel or behave in reaction to the character?

Actions What does the character do? How does the character behave?

Looks What does the character look like? How does the character dress?

Character

Characterization

Template

Similie Metaphor Personification Hyperbole Alliteration Idiom Onamanapoeia

Websites Gamequarium Practice and Quiz

Figurative Language

Situational Dramatic Verbal

Irony

When the audience or reader knows something that the characters do not, something which adds suspense or humor. 

For example, if the audience knows that Juliet only drank a sleeping potion and is not dead but Romeo doesn't know. Dra

Dramatic Irony

When what someone says something different from what they really mean, or something different from what would be the expected statement in that particular situation.

This includes both sarcasm (for example, if your little brother is sitting on the couch scowling because he doesn't want to go out to dinner.  And you say, with a smirk, "I'm glad to see you're so happy about going to dinner.") and verbal irony that is not sarcastic (for example, if a grieving widow says at her husband's funeral: "He would have loved to be here for this.”

Verbal Irony

When the outcome of a situation is totally unexpected and not anticipated based on earlier events. 

For example: if a championship swimmer drowns, or a firehouse burns down.

Situational Irony

Fiction Non-fiction Historical Fiction Mystery Fantasy

Genre