Reading Process
While reading, the effective reader should
Annotate keywords and ideas
Summarize the important details
What are the three stages of the writing process?
Pre-writing, Drafting, and Revision
This type of essay requires you to summarize a reading, article, essay, or other source by identifying its main idea and most important supporting details. Your summary should clearly explain the author's message in your own words while remaining objective and accurate. Avoid including personal opinions, interpretations, or unnecessary details.
Summary Writing
A word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase.
Why do we use commas?
Commas indicate a separation of ideas or elements within the structure of a sentence.
Develop critical thinking skills
Exposes you to a variety of writing styles
Study grammar in context
Expand your vocabulary
Inspires new ideas.
Pre-Writing Strategies
Pre-writing is brainstorming, free writing, outlining, and research. It’s the process of getting started, gathering ideas, and putting them to use; practice makes perfect.
What type of writing is collecting and presenting evidence, allowing the reader to make an informed decision regarding the topic.
Argumentative writing
A word that’s opposite in meaning to another.
What is antonyms?
True or False:
Semicolons and colons should always be placed outside the closing quotation marks.
True
Reading Process Phrases
Before reading, during reading, and after reading
What's the difference between a topic and summary sentence?
This type of essay asks you to analyze and evaluate a text, idea, event, or issue. In this type of essay, you will examine the author's main message, discuss how effectively it is presented, and support your opinions with specific evidence and examples.
Critical Response Essay
Words that link together other words, phrases, clauses, or sentences. Hint: words like and, but, or.
Conjunctions
True or False: Commas go between the items in your list, but not always before "and."
True
What do we do when we are reading like a reader?
Questions, Predict, Infer, Connect, Feel, and Evaluate
What might happen if you didn’t proofread your paper?
Your paper might contain grammatical errors.
the collection of feelings or associations you have with a word.
What is connotation?
Name three different types of sentence structure
Simple, Compound, and Complex
Name the sentence type:
Must have a comma and a conjunction between two independent clauses.
Compound sentence
Active Strategies for Reading
Bracket the main idea or thesis of the reading and put an asterisk next to it.
Highlighting keywords/terms and sentences that best expresses the main concept.
Write a summary of an essay or chapter in your own words.
Difference between editing and revising
This type of essay is a form of personal writing that allows you to think critically about an experience, lesson, reading, or event and explain what you learned from it.
Reflection Writing
“Bella read a book before bedtime, and she ate a snack afterward.” This sentence is an example of……
What is a compound sentence?
What are simple sentences?