Correlation Matrix: Reading Strategies, Genre, Techniques,
Six Traits, and Writing Forms

 
 
 
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Reading Strategy

Reading Genre

Reading Skills

Six Trait Mini- Lesson Ideas

Writing Form


Connect


-Realistic Fiction
-Fairy Tales/folk tales
-Myths/legends
-Science: Predict
  what  will happen

 


-Story map
-Story elements
-Text structure
-Schema for genre
-Author’s similarities -Symbolism
-Allusion


-Ideas
-Brainstorm ideas  related to a topic -Ask students to
  make  everyday
  connections to
  object


-Narrative
-Author study
-Memoir
-Diary


Create sensory images

 


-Poetry
-Fantasy
-Science Fiction
-Fiction: setting,
  mood
-Non fiction
-Math
-Science


-Figurative language
-Vocabulary
-Idiom

 


-Ideas/Details
    Showing vs. Telling
-Word Choice  
  Conventions
     Vivid verbs
     Precise nouns

 


-Writing Workshop
-Poetry


Question

 


-Non fiction
-Author’s purpose
-Fiction (e.g. survival)

 


-Fact/opinion
-Evaluating and
  sources -Cause/effect

 


-All traits except
  coventions
-Revision process
    I wonder why you-
    I wonder what
    happens next - -Ideas/details


-All writing
-Research
-Persuasive

 

 

Determine
Importance

 

 

-Fiction–elements -Historical fiction -Biography, Diary
-Any non-fiction
     Text structure
     Text conventions

 

-Skimming/scanning -Summary
-Note taking -Research skills -Culture and era

 

 

-Ideas/Details
-Peers identify most
important paragraph,
sentence, or word in   writing
-Organization (text structure)

 

-Expository -Persuasive
-Research

 


Infer

 


-Fiction
  characterization -Vocabulary, unknown   words
-Poetry
-Mystery
-Fantasy
-Science Fiction


-Foreshadowing -Theme
-Point of view
-Drawing conclusions -Evaluating
  information
-Symbolism
-Irony
-Allusion


-Ideas/Details
-What to delete? -How to create
  believable characters
-Word Choice
-Voice

 


-Writing Workshop
-Poetry

 


Synthesis

 


-Memoirs
-Narrative
-Non-fiction
-Fable
-Classics

 


-Retelling
-Summarizing
-Theme
-Symbolism

 


-Ideas/Details
-What is the purpose? -What will the reader  learn?

 


-Narrative
-Writing Workshop

 


Determine
Importance

 

 


-Rereading

 


-Organization
     Text structure


-Any writing

 


Infer

Determine
Importance

 


-Persuasive
-Poetry

 


-Point of view
-Dialect

 


-Voice
-Word Choice

 


-Persuasive
-Poetry

 


Infer

Determine
Importance

 


-Persuasive
-Poetry

 


-Tone
-Denotation,
  connotation  

 


-Word Choice

 


-Poetry
-Persuasive

 


Infer

 


-Poetry
-Reader’s Theater

 


-Re-reading
-Rate, accuracy
  expression

 


-Sentence fluency

 


-All writing

 


Monitor for
Meaning

 


-All


-Rereading
-Context clues
-Metacognition


-Conventions
-Presentation

 


-Published pieces

 

       © 2005 Carol Carlson

 

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