Reading Check

Reading Check

How to prove you understand what you are reading through dialectical journaling!

Which Reading Strategies Do You Know?

Predict

Visualize

Question

Connect

Identify

Infer

Evaluate

Multiple Choice

Predict means

• to guess what happens next

• ask a question

• see a problem

• figure out what someone means when they don't say it directly

Multiple Select

Visualize means the author has described something so well you can almost do the following:

• see what is happening

• taste what is being described

• hear the sounds

• feel what is being described

• smell the smells

Multiple Choice

When you make an inference, or infer, you are using clues from the story to:

• guess what will happen next

• help you buy the book

• draw conclusions, or know what is happening without having the author tell you directly.

• determine the author's purpose. Why was this book written?

Poll

Which Reading Strategies do you feel like you REALLY REALLY know?

• predict

• visualize

• question

• connect

• infer

Open Ended

Write any reading strategies you think you need to learn more about.

Predict

Visualize

Question

Connect

Identify

Infer

Clarify

Vocabulary

Evaluate

How to do a reading check using a reading strategy

While you are reading, pay attention to your thinking.

Multiple Choice

If you are reading and you start thinking, "Oh, I bet she is going to be angry when she finds out!" Which reading strategy are you using?

• visualize

• question

• predict

• infer

• vocab

Now that you realized you have used a reading strategy, write it down! Here are directions!

• S-Write the Strategy-Predict

• C-Copy the part of the book that triggered that thought-be sure to put quotation marks around it.

• E-Explain it, tell what it is. What is your prediction?

Reading Strategies aren't the only way to go! You might also see something that is an important part of the plot development, or you may see some figurative language.

There are many types of figurative language, including, but not limited to:

• simile or metaphor

• oxymoron or alliteration

• idiom or hyperbole

• symbolism

• onomatopoeia

• irony or puns

• personification

Do you understand the different parts of a plot?

Exposition-Characters-antagonist, protagonist, dynamic, static

Setting-time, place

Inciting incident

Rising action

Climax

Falling action

Resolution

Be sure to know the parts of a PLOT! _

Multiple Select

What kind of items can you comment on about this sentence:

COLE MATTHEWS KNELT defiantly in the bow of the aluminum skiff as he faced forward into a cold September wind.

• plot development: exposition/character

• figurative language: simile

• plot development: exposition/setting/time

• figurative language: alliteration

• plot development: climax

Open Ended

Explain your answer from the previous slide. Be ready to share.

What can you see here?

Worn steel handcuffs bit at his wrists each time the small craft slapped into another wave. Overhead, a gray-matted sky hung like a bad omen.

Multiple Select

Worn steel handcuffs bit at his wrists each time the small craft slapped into another wave. Overhead, a gray-matted sky hung like a bad omen.

• figurative language-personification

• plot development-resolution

• figurative language-simile

• figurative language-metaphor

Open Ended

Explain one of your choices-Be specific: