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What strategies do good readers use?

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Visualize, make connections, inferences, make predictions, ask questions.

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What is a hamburger paragraph?

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Topic sentence, 3 details, closing sentence.

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Literary Devices.

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Oxymoron

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2 descriptions that contradict each other.

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Alliteration

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A repeated sound at the start of words that are beside each other

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Simile

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Simple comparisons.

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Metaphors

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Complex comparisons.

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Extended Metaphors

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A metaphor that extends throughout the whole piece.

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Onomatopoeia

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A word that is spelled exactly like it sounds.

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Personification

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Giving a non-human thing, human-like quality’s.

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Hyperbole

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Extreme exaggeration.

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Rhyme Scheme

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The pattern of the rhymes, in poems.

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Foreshadowing

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A hint of something that’s going to happen later in the story.

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Elements Of A Story

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Setting

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Where the story is taking place, and it can affect the whole thing.

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Conflict

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Problems or arguments characters encounter during the story.

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Mood

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What mood the story is making you feel, as you are reading it, or after you read it.

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Perspective

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What persons perspective is the story being told in? 1st person? 3rd? Etc.

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Theme

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Theme is what the author has been to get across the whole time.