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Reading Strategies
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The Bumblebee Flies Anyway

by Robert Cormier

Larkin Weyand
English 378, 2000.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

1. MAJOR TOPICS OF STUDY
a. Characterization
b. Climax
c. Conflict
d. Dialogue
e. Falling action - denouement
f. Flashback
g. Plot
h. Resolution
i. Rising action
j. Setting
k. Tragedy

2. RELEVANT THEMES
a. Deception
b. Truth
c. Promises
d. Finding meaning in life
e. Hope
f. Routines
g. Death

3. STRATEGIES AVAILABLE IN THIS PORTFOLIO
a. Story Grammar
b. The Raygor Readability Estimate
c. Cloze Procedure
d. Anticipation Guide
e. Problematic Situation
f. Guided Imagery
g. K-W-H-L
h. The Directed Reading Thinking Activity
i. Bloom's Taxonomy
j. Assignment Menu
k. Vocabulary - Anagrams
l. Found Poetry

 

 

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