This document provides an overview of various reading strategies and literary elements that are important for comprehending texts. It discusses previewing and visualizing, questioning strategies like KWL charts and question webs, summarizing using GIST templates, connecting to personal experiences and other texts, understanding author's purpose using PIE elements, identifying text structures, making inferences, predicting, and responding to and evaluating readings. Literary elements covered include plot, characterization, setting, theme, imagery, figurative language, irony, and text structures. The document also outlines various graphic organizers, activities, and websites to help teach and practice these comprehension strategies.

1. St. Adalbert’s Grade 7Reading Comprehension

2. Preview.Visualize.Question. KWLSummarize. GISTConnect. TTTTTS TTWUnderstand Author’s Purpose. PIEIdentify Text Structure.Make Inferences.Predict.Use details to support generalizations.Respond and Evaluate.Reading StrategiesWhat Good Reader’s Do!

3. SeeHearTasteSmellFeelTemplateVisualize

4. What does this mean?I wonder what happened…Question

5. Question Web

6. Who?What?Where?When?How?GIST TemplateSummarize

7. Amelia EarhartParaphraseShrinking NotesCrayon NotesSummarize - Activity

8. Text to SelfConnect

9. ReactionsConnect

10. Cue CardsConnect

11. Sequence of EventsCause and EffectProblem and SolutionCompare and ContrastChronological OrderWebsitesSignal Words and Graphic OrganizersText Structure

13. Filling in information not directly stated from the CLUES and WHAT YOU KNOWPredictionsInteractive QuiaQuizContext CluesContext CluesInference

14. Try It Out1. What can you conclude from this sentence?Two children were walking in the woods?Automatic AssumptionReasoned ConclusionWhat details can we add to imply a bad ending or a good ending without actually revealing it? 2. Boy: “I just saw your best friend and she dyed her hair purple”. Girl: No wayDid the girl believe him? Why or why not?How can you lead the reader to think one way or the other without revealing it? If it were a play, what would you do?

15. SlideshareWhat do you observe?What do you think happened?Inference or Observation?

16. Author’s Purpose - PIE

17. Elements of PlotCharacterizationSettingThemeImageryFigurative LanguageIronyWebsitesLiterary ElementsLiterary TermsLiterary Elements

18. Exposition ConflictRising ActionClimaxFalling ActionResolutionWebsitesPlot DiagramPlot Interactive (Jack and the Bean Stalk)Test Your Skills (Cinderella)Name That Literary Element gameElements of Plot

19. Plot

20. Speech What does the character say? How does the character speak? Thoughts What is revealed through the character’s private thoughts and feelings? Effecton others toward the character. What is revealed through the character’s effect on other people? How do other characters feel or behave in reaction to the character? Actions What does the character do? How does the character behave? Looks What does the character look like? How does the character dress? Character

21. CharacterizationTemplate

22. SimilieMetaphorPersonificationHyperboleAlliterationIdiomOnamanapoeiaWebsitesGamequariumPractice and QuizFigurative Language

23. SituationalDramaticVerbalIrony

24. When the audience or reader knows something that the characters do not, something which adds suspense or humor. For example, if the audience knows that Juliet only drank a sleeping potion and is not dead but Romeo doesn't know. DraDramatic Irony

25. When what someone says something different from what they really mean, or something different from what would be the expected statement in that particular situation. This includes both sarcasm (for example, if your little brother is sitting on the couch scowling because he doesn't want to go out to dinner. And you say, with a smirk, "I'm glad to see you're so happy about going to dinner.") and verbal irony that is not sarcastic (for example, if a grieving widow says at her husband's funeral: "He would have loved to be here for this.”Verbal Irony

26. When the outcome of a situation is totally unexpected and not anticipated based on earlier events. For example: if a championship swimmer drowns, or a firehouse burns down. Situational Irony

27. FictionNon-fictionHistorical FictionMysteryFantasyGenre