Reading Atlas Tips

SLAY

S = skim

look at titles, subtitles, images, graphs, charts (no more than 30 secs to skim)

L = look at question

look at answers and specific details before answering

A = answer questions

answer questions with data from S and L

Y = yo! check your answers

check your answers to make sure you answer the right answer or if it asked for two responses

Vocab words- look at root or base word or use context clues from the sentence the word is in

Main idea- Tells what the story is about

Theme- the lesson the text is trying to tell you

Make sure to compare and contrast

Cause and effect

Sequence

Problem and Solution

Description

Compare and contrast

Graphical Features 

Italics

images

graphs

charts

subtitles

titles

Elements of fiction

Plot

Resolution- Solution

Characters- people in the story

Setting- Where the story is taken place

Figurative Language

Similes- uses like or as

Metaphor- Does not use like or as

Idiom- does not mean what it actually says

Personification- giving something that his not human human like features

Onomatopoeia- word in a text that imitate sound