ELA Strategies Review

What is main idea?

• The supporting details in a story

• The moral lesson of the story

• What the story is mostly about

When a question begins with "what can you conclude..." Its really asking you to:

• Summarize

• infer

• identify theme

In order to  make an inference, I must use my background knowledge and what else? 

• Text clues
• theme
• main idea
• stanzas

What do good readers do when they are reading?

• Visualize while they are reading.
• Talk to their mom about what they are going to do over the weekend.
• Just keep reading even if it doesn't make sense.
• Wonder why their teacher loves the color purple

a retelling of a story using only the main events

• theme

• main idea

• summary

• perspective

What should you do before a big test?

• Eat tons of junk food!
• Get a full nights rest and eat a healthy breakfast.
• Have a party.
• Pull an all nighter.

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.3

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.3

What answers should you eliminate?

• Obviously wrong answers

• Choices that are partly wrong

• Answers that are correct but don't answer the question

• All of the above

If you do not know the answer to a question, you should____.

• make a random guess
• eliminate bad choices, then guess from remaining choices
• not answer it
• ask the teacher to tell you the answer

Making pictures in your mind as you read to help you "see" what you are reading.

• Determining what's important

• Visualizing

• Making predictions

• Making an inference

Tags

CCSS.RF.5.3A

CCSS.RF.5.4A

CCSS.RF.5.4B

CCSS.RF.5.4C

CCSS.RI.6.10

Highlighting and annotating are techniques that can

• add to the reader's understanding
• make it difficult to understand main ideas
• express your artistic ability
• have no benefit at all