6 Strategies - Not Vocab

Question 1

1. Contrast and Contradiction

Answer 1

When a character acts or speaks in a way that doesn’t fit with how they have been acting

Question 2

Contrast and Contradiction question

Answer 2

Why is the character doing that?

Question 3

2. Tough Questions

Answer 3

Internal Conflict - when your reading and the character asks himself a very difficult question

Question 4

Tough Questions question

Answer 4

What does that make me wonder about?

Question 5

3. Words of the Wiser

Answer 5

When a character, usually older, takes the main character aside and gives them words of wisdom

Question 6

Words of the Wiser question

Answer 6

What is the life lesson? = Theme - How will this affect the main character?

Question 7

4. Memory Moment

Answer 7

They stop the story and give us a “Flashback”

- A time when the author takes the time to remember something that happened in the past that might affect the story

Question 8

Memory Moment question

Answer 8

Why might this memory be important?

Question 9

5. Aha Moment

Answer 9

• When we realize something and that realization changes our actions
• If the character has just figured out a problem, you’ve learned about the conflict and solution
• If the character understood a life lesson, you’ve probably learned the theme

Question 10

Aha Moment question

Answer 10

How does this change things?

Question 11

6. Again and Again

Answer 11

When the author repeats something in a text, sometimes separated by many pages by clearly intended to make a point
-It can be a word, phrase, object, or situation

Question 12

Again and Again question

Answer 12

Why does this keep showing up again and again?