Reading Strategies :)

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visualizing

Back 1

using the five senses to create a mind movie of what you are reading

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compare and contrast

Back 2

Compare-tell how things are alike

Contrast-tell how thing are different

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elaborating

Back 3

being able to further explainbased on what you already know

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drawing conclutions

Back 4

adding up the information you have learned from reading to make your own assumptions about the outcome of the situation

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reagonizing author`s purpose

Back 5

why did the author write it?

*to inform

*to entertain

*to persude

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making inferences

Back 6

using prior knowlege to make an educated guess

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making connections

Back 7

when you make connections between something you already have prior knowledge of and the new knowledge from the text

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clarifying

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make the meaning of the text clearer by asking yourself questions,rereading,and/or restating the passage

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making predictions

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Using the text to guess what will next. Then the reader confirms or rejects the prediction as s/he reads.

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using context clues

Back 10

using words surronding an unknown word to determine its meaning

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Questioning

Back 11

questions with different purposes can be asked and answered before,during,and after reading

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summarizing

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taking larger selections of the text and reducing them to their key ideas or main points that are worth noticing and rembering (main ideas)

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regonizing text structure

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knowing how a piece of text is organized helps the reader make better sense of the information