Comprehension Strategies
You are reading along and something you read reminds you of something you have seen before.
When are you making a schema connection?
I like coffee ice cream
Who is Isabella?
This can come before a free base or bound base and can change the meaning of the word.
What is a prefix?
I begin in the morning and end at night. Yester... happened before and right now is To...
What is "day"?
This strategy can be used to help you summarize an article or text. You divide the article/ text into sections and write the paragraphs into one sentence or summarizing idea.
What is "chunk and shrink"?
When you can see the reading, like it's a movie in your head.
What happens when you are visualizing?
I like coffee!
Who is Alex?
"...holds the meaning and the key to the spelling."
What is a base?
"I hate to think I've got to grow up, and be Miss March, and wear long gowns, and look as prim as a China Doll! It's bad enough to be a girl, anyway, when I like boy's games and work and manners! I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy. And it's worse than ever now, for I'm dying to go and fight with Papa. And I can only stay home and knit, like a poky old woman!"
Based on details in the excerpt, the reader can conclude that the –
A characters are living in a war
B narrator is usually unhappy
C characters are a close family
D narrator hates all girls
A: The characters are living in a war
When vowels make a lazy sound in the unstressed part of a word. It can sound like an /uh/ or short <u>.
What is a schwa?
When the author hints at something with text clues and you use your schema to find the answer. Text + Schema = ___________
What is an inference?
I like dogs.
Who is Kaelana?
Can change the tense or grammatical of a word. It comes after a base.
What is a suffix?
All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old, she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs. Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, "Oh, why can't you remain like this forever!" This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.
there is less happiness.
What is the primary theme of the excerpt?
A Find joy in the little things.
B Focus on your childhood.
C Love your children.
D Value your childhood.
D: Value your childhood
In Latin words when the <t> comes before <ion>?
What is the /sh/ sound?
Sometimes these thoughts come in a chain reaction: you ask one, and it leads to another, and another, and another. You use these thoughts to clear up confusion and to dig deeper. Sometimes these thoughts have no answers, and that can be a good thing!
What is questioning?
I love to play ball!
Who is Aryiah?
ac + com + pl + ish + ment
What is the word sum for the word <accomplishment>?
When these people drew near the house
where Dorothy was standing in the doorway,
they paused and whispered among
themselves, as if afraid to come farther. But
the little old woman walked up to Dorothy,
made a low bow and said, in a sweet voice:
"You are welcome, most noble Sorceress, to
the land of the Munchkins. We are so grateful
to you for having killed the Wicked Witch of
the East, and for setting our people free from
bondage." Dorothy listened to this speech
with wonder. What could the little woman
possibly mean by calling her a sorceress, and
saying she had killed the Wicked Witch of the
East? Dorothy was an innocent, harmless little
girl, who had been carried by a cyclone
many miles from home; and she had never
killed anything in all her life.
The reader can conclude that Dorothy-
A is not from this place
B knows the old woman
C is hiding that she is a witch
D did not kill the Wicked Witch
A is not from this place
When reading complex text about science or history--especially if they are describing a process or item, you can use this strategy.
Sketch it out.
This kind of thought happens when you add more and more information--new information added to old makes a new idea!
What is syntesizing?
I love to read graphic novels
Karthik
The word sum for <irresponsible>
What is this: ir + re + sponse/ + ible ?
Tarzan smiled with them, but he did not cease his attentions toward the cub. Reaching out suddenly he caught the little lion by the scruff of its neck and then stroking it gently he talked to it in a low, crooning tone. I do not know what he said; but perhaps the cub did, for presently it ceased its struggles and no longer sought to scratch or bite the caressing hand. After that he picked it up and held it against his chest. It did not seem afraid now, nor did it even bare its fangs against this close proximity to the former hated man-scent.
Which is true about the lion cub?
A He felt comfortable with Tarzan.
B He was stolen from his parents.
C He is terrified of the humans.
D He tried to run away.
A. He felt comfortable with Tarzan
An informational writing structure that tells about events in order.
What is sequence?