VOCABULARY STRATEGIES
Breaking words into parts to find the meaning
What is word analysis?
The subject of an entire reading
What is the topic?
SQ3R, 5C, and triple highlighting
What are the 3 textbook reading methods?
Using the title, stated actions, or character descriptions to guess what will happen
What is making predictions?
What are prereading strategies?
The words and sentences around a word that can give clues to its meaning
What are context clues?
Survey, question, read, recite, and review
What is SQ3R?
What is skimming?
Effective readers who think about the text by making predictions and asking questions
What are active readers?
Asking questions that may need to be answered in the story
What is questioning?
The suggested meaning of a word
What is connotation?
The point the reading is making about the topic
What is the main idea?
The table of contents, glossary, and the index
What are textbook organizational aids?
This requires combining your prior knowledge with new information
What is making inferences or drawing conclusion?
Making meaning from the title, picture and headings
What are making predictions about the text?
The dictionary definition of a word
What is denotation?
Details that relate directly to the main idea
What are major details?
A five step method using index cards to record key information, vocabulary and definitions
What is 5C?
What is the writer's purpose?
Thinking about what I already know about the things I see in the pictures
What is making inferences or predicting?
Using what you already know and the new information to make a smart guess
What is making an inference?
Who, what, when, where, why and how?
What are the details of a reading?
Taking notes in the margin of the textbook
What are annotations?
This involves higher order thinking (HOT) such as analyzing, comparing and judging
What is critical reading or thinking?
Deciding why to read a text
What is setting a purpose?