Social Sciences, Communications, and Speech
Weeks Five- Seven
Weeks Five- Seven
To understand all types of reading and its relevance
Why do we read across the disciplines?
To illustrate concepts for better understanding
What is the purpose of visual aids?
An educated guess based on information provided
What is an inference?
When a reader uses the surrounding words and phrases to determine the meaning of an unknown word
What are context clues?
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What is a perk of using your ID card?
To build and maintain healthy, strong relationships with family, friends, and co-workers.
Why are communication skills important?
True of false?
Photographs are not reliable visual aids.
What is false? Photos and their captions can help illustrate accompanying ideas visually.
Comic strips
What is an effective visual aid for inferencing?
The ending of a word; can change a word's tense
or part of speech
What is a suffix?
Chunking, Rhyming,
and Acronyms
What are
mnemonic devices?
Relevant terminology
What are important understandings in reading across disciplines?
An information box included alongside a visual aid
What is a Legend?
True or false?
All inferences are valid.
What is false? Inferences are still guesses, even if they are educated guesses. (Remember our skier?)
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What is an example
of an idiom?
An idea that summarizes the entire reading
What is the main idea, or central point
of a text selection?
Consider and implement how information is relevant in real-life situations.
What is using
practical applications?
Ease of understanding the data, as well as visually pleasing
What is how a
graphic is organized?
Five clues helpful in inferencing
What are word choices, details included and omitted, ideas emphasized, and direct commentary?
Commas, parenthesis,
or dashes
What are punctuation clues that signify a definition is coming and separate it from the rest of the sentence?
Cause-and-effect,
timeline, contrast
What are patterns of organizations between parts of writing, for example, sentences or paragraphs?
Political, economical, social, cultural, and behavioral aspects of people
What aspects do social scientists study?
Primary and secondary
What are two groupings of visual aids?
A poignant and thought-provoking writing that can be used to explore a wide range of themes and emotions and convey a message or tell a story in a concise and creative way.
What is a six-word story?
Definition, example, contrast, and logic of the passage
What are four types of contrast clues?
Number of times we had the same word in our Vocabulary of the Week assignments.
What is three?
(taradiddle, bumfuzzle,
and serendipity)