Strategies review
Learner makes personal connections from the text. For example they can relate the text to something in their own life, another text, something occurring in the world
What is making connections
Vocabulary development helps you...
...understanding of specific words presented in a text.
Steps in reasoning, moving from premises to logical
What is inferences
Questioning is a reading strategy that helps the reader
What is...to clarify what he or she is reading and to better understand the text.
These are found in the text to support the main idea
What are supporting details
Learners use information from graphics, text and experiences to anticipate what will be read/viewed/heard and to actively adjust comprehension while reading/viewing/listening.
What is Prediction
Most students acquire vocabulary through indirect exposure by reading widely on their own. The amount of reading is important to long-term vocabulary development.
What is Incidental Vocabulary Learning
These are needed from the text to make an inference
What are evidences
What does that word mean? Why is that happening? What am I learning?
We post the previous questions to...
What is clarify meaning
Read the whole text.
Ask, “What is this text about?”
Answer with one or two words...
What is...TOPIC
Learners stop and think about the text and know what to do when meaning is disrupted.
What is Monitoring
Understanding specific word: Defining words from context. Applying word-learning strategies: Semantic mapping, Analyzing word parts (Affixes).Word consciousness to engage curiosity in learning more new words: Language categories, Figurative language
What are Intentional Vocabulary Learning
How do you know this?
What in the text or image supports your description?
Why do you feel this way?
These are...
What is inferencial questions
Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, Evaluation...What are those?
What are... type of questions
Read the whole text.
Ask, “What is this text about?”
Answer with one or two sentences
What is MAIN IDEA
Learners create a mental image from a text read/viewed/hear. Visualizing brings the text to life, engages the imagination and uses all of the senses.
What is Visualizing
These help you develop connections among words and increase learning of vocabulary words.
For example, by writing an example, a non-example, a synonym, and an antonym, students must deeply process the word persist.
What are semantic maps
-Use your prior knowledge
-Use textual information to draw conclusions
-Make critical judgments
-Form unique interpretations from the text, image or situation.
What is steps to make an inference
What you already know about the topic or author, or even illustrations found on the cover or in the book itself.
What are questions before reading
What is the formula to get the main idea?
What is...Topic + key ideas about the topic = MAIN IDEA
Learners identify and accumulate the most important ideas and restate them in their own words.
What is Summarizing
The ability to analyze word parts also helps when you are faced with unknown vocabulary.
What are Affixes (prefixes and suffixes)
Etymologically, the word infer means...
What is to "carry forward".
Confront any answers that you may have found to your questions, as well as inferences you have for unanswered questions.
What are questions after reading
Where in the paragraph you can find the main idea?
What are...first and last sentences