1. St. Adalbert’s Grade 7 Reading Comprehension

2. Preview. Visualize. Question. KWL Summarize. GIST Connect. TTTTTS TTW Understand Author’s Purpose. PIE Identify Text Structure. Make Inferences. Predict. Use details to support generalizations. Respond and Evaluate. Reading StrategiesWhat Good Reader’s Do!

3. See Hear Taste Smell Feel Template Visualize

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

5. Question Web

6. Who? What? Where? When? How? GIST Template Summarize

7. Amelia Earhart Paraphrase Shrinking Notes Crayon Notes Summarize - Activity

8. Text to Self Connect

9. Reactions Connect

10. Cue Cards Connect

11. Sequence of Events Cause and Effect Problem and Solution Compare and Contrast Chronological Order Websites Signal Words and Graphic Organizers Text Structure

13. Filling in information not directly stated from the CLUES and WHAT YOU KNOW Predictions Interactive QuiaQuiz Context Clues Context Clues Inference

14. Try It Out 1. What can you conclude from this sentence? Two children were walking in the woods? Automatic AssumptionReasoned Conclusion What 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 way Did 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. Slideshare What do you observe? What do you think happened? Inference or Observation?

16. Author’s Purpose - PIE

17. Elements of Plot Characterization Setting Theme Imagery Figurative Language Irony Websites Literary Elements Literary Terms Literary Elements

18. Exposition Conflict Rising Action Climax Falling Action Resolution Websites Plot Diagram Plot Interactive (Jack and the Bean Stalk) Test Your Skills (Cinderella) Name That Literary Element game Elements 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. Characterization Template

22. Similie Metaphor Personification Hyperbole Alliteration Idiom Onamanapoeia Websites Gamequarium Practice and Quiz Figurative Language

23. Situational Dramatic Verbal Irony

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. Dra Dramatic 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. Fiction Non-fiction Historical Fiction Mystery Fantasy Genre