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English/Language Arts/Reading

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The ELA/Reading skills listed in the T2T pages fall, for the most part, into one or more of the categories listed below.  To find Minutes that utilize specific ​skills, use the search bar in the lower right corner of the footer on every page in the site.
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Close Reading
While close reading strategies can be applied to just about anything, some pieces of writing lend themselves to teaching and reinforcing close reading strategies and text dependent analysis.
  • Main Ideas
  • TDA (Text Dependent Analysis)
  • Themes

Genre
  • Expository (informative with thesis statement, intended to inform, explain and define)
  • Informational
  • Narrative
  • News/Journalism
  • Persuasive/argument
  • Procedural

Lead Sentences/Hooks
  • Anecdotes
  • Questions
  • Topic sentences
  • Thesis statements
  • Interesting/historical facts

Literary Devices
  • Alliteration
  • Anecdote
  • Allusions
  • Dialogue
  • Flashback
  • Foreshadowing
  • Hyperbole
  • Imagery
  • Personification
  • Metaphor
  • Simile

Style
  • Author study

Text Features
  • Bold print
  • Graphs
  • Epigraphs
  • Sidebars
  • Charts
  • ALL CAPS

Text Structure
  • Argument
  • Cause/Effect
  • Compare/Contrast
  • Cyclical
  • Description
  • Order/Sequence
  • Question & Answer
  • Problem/Solution

Titles
  • For explaining and exploring “what’s in a name?”

Visual Literacy

Voice
  • First person
  • Second person
  • Third person

Word Choice 
  • Adding details
  • Vivid verbs
  • Definitive diction

Writing Seeds
  • Ideas for future writing

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