It something that is not explicitly stated in the text, students learn to draw on prior knowledge and recognize clues in the text itself.

Readers can take advantage of illustrations that are embedded in the text or create their own mental images or drawings when reading text without illustrations.

Teachers can have students diagram the story grammar of the text to raise their awareness of the elements the author uses to construct the story.

A story based on the title and any other clues that are available, such as illustrations.

Asking students to retell a story in their own words forces them to analyze the content to determine what is important.

Reading rapidly in order to get a general overview of the material.

Reading

rapidly in order to find specific facts.

A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or abilities.

An implied comparison between two dissimilar things that have something in common.

Directly addressing a nonexistent person or an inanimate object as though it were a living being.

An extravagant statement; the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect.

A stated comparison (usually formed with "like" or "as") between two fundamentally dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common.

The use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.

I have a ton of things to do when I get home.

a good thing that seemed bad at first

The person we were just talking about

showed up!

You don't notice how long something

lasts when it's fun

Better to arrive late than not to come at

all

Good luck