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Textbook Assignment
Student Handbook
Student Responsibilities
Positive Awards
Newport School District Policy
Reading Strategies
Question- While you read, question what's happening. Searching for reasons behind events and characters' actions can help you get more involved in what you read.
Connect- Connect personally with what you're reading. Think of similarities between the descriptions in the selection and what you have personally experienced, heard, or read.
Predict- Try to figure out what will happen next and how the selection might end. Then read on to see if you made good guesses.
Clarify- Stop occasionally to review what you understand so far, and expect to have your understanding change and develop as you read on.
Evaluate- Form opinions about what you read, both while you're reading and after you've finished. Make judgments about the characters and develop your own ideas about events.
Visualize- Make a picture in your mind of what the text says. Imagine you are looking at what is describe.
Literary Terms
Plot- the series of incidents or happenings in a story. The plot is the outline or arrangement of events.
Setting- the time and place of the action in a story; where and when the action takes place.
Mood- the feeling or atmosphere that the writer creates. For example, the mood of a story might be joyous or suspenseful.
Theme- the main idea of a story.
Style- the way in which a writer uses language. The choice and arrangement of words and sentences help to create the author’s style.
Purpose- the reason the author wrote the story. For example, an author’s purpose might be to amuse or entertain, to convince, or to inform.
Characterization- the ways a writer shows what a character is like. The way a character acts, speaks, thinks and looks characterizes that person.
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