In this strategy, you pay attention to the reason why the author wrote the story.
Author's purpose
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This strategy can be used in nonfiction texts. It's when you look for statements that are true and can be proven and when you look for the author's point of view, whether it's true or not.
Fact and opinion.
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This strategy refers to the opinion you may have after considering all the text evidence.
Drawing conclusions.
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You can use this strategy before reading. You guess what's going to happen next based on text evidence.
Making predictions.
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This strategy looks for the similarities and differences of story elements.
Compare and Contrast
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With this strategy you identify the reason why something happened and its result.
Cause and effect.
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With this strategy you identify the characters, setting, problem, and solution of a story.
Story elements
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Using this strategy, you identify the order of events in a story.
Sequence of events.
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Using this strategy you can understand what the author is not saying in a text. How do you do it? Using your own knowledge about something and text clues.
Making inferences.
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Using this strategy, we can identify the most important thought of a text or paragraph, and the statements that support or explain that idea.