TWIST Reading Strategy

The first T in TWIST stands for ___________

What does the W in TWIST stand for?

• Who

• Word Choice

• Wordy

• Wit

The I in TWIST stands for ____________

• Idiom and Diction

• Inference and Details

• Illusion and Imagination

• Imagery and Details

The S in TWIST stands for ___________

The last T in TWIST stands for _________

• Tone and Theme

• Twist and Shout

• Title

• Thesis and Style

Turn the title into a ​ (a)   and try to answer it by the end of the reading.

• question
• statement
• song
• summary

When annotating for word choice, what do you need to look for?

• Adjectives

• Verbs

• Descriptive words

• All of the above

Imagery refers to details that appeal to the ​ (a)   senses

• five
• four
• three
• nine

True or False:

Structure focuses on how the text is organized

• True

• False

Tone refers to the author's __________________ or feeling about a subject he/she is writing about.