Reading Informational Text

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Reading Informational Text

• What you should be trying to identify
• The topic and central idea
• The major points
• The supporting details
• The organization
• What you should be actively doing as you read
• Making inferences, drawing conclusions forming
  opinions
• Using context clues to figure out meaning
• Paraphrasing the information
• Recognizing how the organizational structure fits
  the information
• Identifying the purpose of reading the text
• use a pen or pencil to make notes on the text as
  you read

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Reading Narrative Text

• What you should be able to identify
• Plot
• Character
• Setting
• Theme
• Literary devices like symbol, imagery, flashback,
  foreshadowing, and irony
• What you should be actively doing as you read
• Making inferences, drawing conclusions forming
  opinions
• Making predictions
• Using context to unlock meaning
• Recognizing and interpreting the use of literary
  devices
• Identifying a purpose for reading
• use a pen or pencil to make notes on the text as
  you read