Reading Skill Sets
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- Reading rate
- The speed at which a person reads, usually silently.
- Point of view
- The way in which an author reveals characters, events and ideas in telling a story; the vantage point from which the story is told.
- Fluency:
- The clear, easy, written or spoken expression of ideas. Freedom from word-identification problems which might hinder comprehension in silent reading or the expression of ideas in oral reading.
- Genre:
- A category used to classify literary works, usually by form, technique or content (e.g., prose, poetry).
- Characterization:
- The method an author uses to reveal characters and their various personalities.
- Graphic organizer
- A diagram or pictorial device that shows relationships.
- Literary structures
- The author's method of organizing text (e.g., foreshadowing, flashbacks).
- Analysis:
- The process or result of identifying the parts of a whole and their relationships to one another.
- Allusion
- An implied or indirect reference in literature to a familiar person, place or event.
- Personification
- An object or abstract idea given human qualities or human form (e.g., Flowers danced about the lawn.).
- Reading critically
- Reading in which a questioning attitude, logical analysis and inference are used to judge the worth of text; evaluating relevancy and adequacy of what is read; the judgement of validity or worth of what is read, based on sound criteria.
- Compare:
- Place together characters, situations or ideas to show common or differing features in literary selections.
- Literary devices
- Tools used by the author to enliven and provide voice to the writing (e.g., dialogue, alliteration).
- Context clues:
- Information from the reading that identifies a word or group of words.
- Evaluate:
- Examine and judge carefully.
- Literary elements
- The essential techniques used in literature (e.g., characterization, setting, plot, theme).