Word Meaning

Essential question
Strategies

What clues help you know the meaning of the word?

Identify prefixes/suffixes Find the context clues (look up, look down, look left, look right, look all around). Replace Antonym (opposite meaning) Synonym (same meaning)

Questions
If this word means___, what would this same word mean with (un-, dis-, etc.) in front of it? If this word means___, what would this same word mean with (-ful, -less, etc.) at the end? In paragraph __ of the story, what does the word ____ mean? What clues helped you know the meaning of the word ___ ? In paragraph ___ of this newspaper article, what clues help you know the meaning of ___ ? What is the opposite of ___ ? What word means the same as ___ ?

Sequence
Essential question What event helps you predict what will happen next? Strategies Before, prior to After, then, next Flow map Diagram

Paragraph number (P-P-P)

Questions
What happened when ____ ? Before __ did ___, what did he do? What happened after? Why are paragraphs __ through __ important in this story? Why is paragraph ___ important in this story? The reader (you) can tell that __ will __ because ___.

Summary
Essential question What are the main events of the story/article? Strategies SDBST (fiction) BME (non-fiction) Only main events Distractions: details

Questions
Which of the following is the best summary of this story?

Characterization
Essential question

How does __ change at the end of the story?

Strategies
Characters feeling/thought Characters action Characters words

Questions
What can you tell about __ and __? At the beginning of the story how does__ feel about___? How did ___s feelings about __ change by the end of the story? How does __ change at the end of the story? What caused __ to change his mind about __? Why are ___ and ___ such good friends?

Authors purpose
Essential questions Why did the author write this story/article?
Strategies Look at the title (nonfiction) Whos the main character? What happened to them? (fiction)

Questions
What was the authors purpose in this article? What can you tell about the authors purpose in this document? The author wrote this document to __ ? Which sentence from this information tells that __ was __ ? How can you tell the authors purpose was __?

Main idea - Details

Essential question
Which detail listed below is important to the main idea?
Strategies Title, pictures Mainly Mostly Important idea Most sentences Who/what mostly about?

Questions
This article is mostly about ___? Which detail listed below is important to the main idea? What is the main idea of this information? What is another title for this passage?

Making Inferences Drawing Conclusion

Essential question What information in the text tells you that ____?
Strategies Probably Most likely Can tell Conclusion Best Reasonable

Questions
You can tell from this information that __. What information in the text tells you that__? What information in this article tells you that___? What can you tell about___? Which sentence in this newspaper article tells you that __ is __?

Cause - Effect
Essential question You can tell that _ causes _ because_. Strategies Multi-flow map Cause why? Effect the result Go back to the story

Questions
You can tell that __ causes ___ because __? _____ happened because ___? How did __ make ___? What was the effect of ____? What caused ____? How did ____ become ____?

Text Features
(bold print, captions, key words, italics)

Essential question If you were looking for ___, what text feature could you use?

Strategies Observe the picture Look at the caption Look at the subtitles Look at the italic words.

Questions
How could you find ___ in this information? Which of the following would be helped in finding information about ___? If you were looking for ___, what text feature could you use? Were you correct in your prediction?