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28 Cards in this Set
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Predict
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Try to figure out what will happen next and how the selection might end.Then read on to see how accurate your guesses were.
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visualize
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Visualize characters, events, and setting to help you understand what’s happening. When you read nonfiction, pay attention as you read.
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Connect
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Connect pesonallly with what you’re reading. Think of similarities berween the descriptions in the selection and whar you hacve personally experienced, heard about, and read about.
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Question
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Question what happens while you read. Searching for reasons behind events and characters’ feelings can help you feel closer to what you’re reading.
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Clarify
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stop occasionally to review what you understand, and expect to have your understanding change and delevelop as you read on. Reread and use resources to help you clarify your understanding. Also watch for answers to questions you had earlier.
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Evaluate
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form opinions about what you read, both while you’re reading and after you’ve finished. Develop your own ideas about characters and events
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Theme
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Themes gives the meaning to the story by providing some insight into life or himan nature.
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Inferences
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Are logical guesses based on clues in the text and on common sense.
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Vigilance
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alert, watchfulness
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Wince
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to shrink or flinch involuntarily, especially in pain.
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Luminious
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bright,Brilliant
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Calibrated
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marked with measurements
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Hindrance
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something that interferes with an activity; obstacle
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Symmetry
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similarity between the two sides of something; balance
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Consternation
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a confused amazement or fear
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Cower
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to draw back in fear; cringe
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Synchronizing
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matching the timing of synchronize
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Vague
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unclear, hazy
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Characters
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Are the people who participate in the action of a story.
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Plot
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Refers to the chain of related events that take place in a story.
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Dynamic Character
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A character that changes in some important way.
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Static Character
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A character that remains the same.
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Motive
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Is the intention or desire that causes him or her to act in a particular way.
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Omen
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a thing or event supposed to foretell good or evil; a sign
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Unavailing
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useless; ineffective
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Withered
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shriveled or shrunken, as if from lack of water or food
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Voluble
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in or with a long flow of words; talkative
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Indomitable
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not easily discouraged,defeated, or subdued
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