English/Language Arts/Reading

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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