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