Vocab
Reading Strategies/Prereading
Context Clues
Riddles
100

Indigenous

Native

100

What are the 3 stages in the reading process?

Pre-reading

During reading

Post-reading

100

Imagine my chagrin when I looked in the mirror right after giving a report in front of the class -- and discovered, to my humiliation, that some of the blueberry pie I had eaten for lunch was still on my front teeth.

Embarrassment

Word -- Humiliation -- Synonym

100

The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?

Footsteps

Time

200

Turbulent

Violently Disturbed

200

What should you do in pre-reading?

Give me two examples!

Prepare your mind to comprehend

Preview the text

Ask questions

Activate background knowledge

200

There was obvious animosity between Carmen and Jack -- for the glared at each other and refused to stay in the same room together.

Ill will

Glared at each other

Refused to stay in the same room

200

Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?

Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

300

Components

Parts

300

What should you be doing during your reading?

Annotate// Monitor your comprehension

Re-read -- fix-up strategy

Look up definitions of vocabulary

Chunking

300

The mayor introduced various stringent financial measures, including cutting the police force in half and reducing the pay of all city employees.

Strict

Cutting police in half

Reducing pay of all city employees

300

What room do ghosts avoid?

The living room

400

Ostentatious

Showy

400

What are some things you should do post-reading?

Check for understanding

Ask questions

Re-read

Review

Quiz yourself

Talk to someone about it

400

Unused muscles will begin to atrophy: thus a broken leg is noticeably thinner when the cast is removed, and a patient bedridden for too long will lack the lower-body strength need to stand up.

Waste away

Thinner when the cast is removed

No strength to stand


400

What belongs to you, but other people use it more than you?

Your name

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