Visualizing
Asking Questions
Inferring
Synthesizing
Important Ideas
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What is visualizing?
Visualizing is when a reader makes a movie in their mind.
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Explain how a good reader asks questions when reading.
A good reader asks questions before, during and after they read. The questions can be something the reader wants to learn or even something they are confused about. Sometimes readers use questions to make a prediction about what will happen next.
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Explain how a reader makes an inference while reading.
A good reader uses their background knowledge and what they are reading to make an under the surface connection or guess about what is happening because the author doesn't always tell us everything.
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What is synthesizing?
Synthesizing is when a reader combines information to change their thinking and make connections.
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How does a reader find the main idea of a paragraph?
A reader finds the main idea by looking at the title, the first sentence and what the paragraph is mostly about.
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When visualizing what five things should you be picturing?
Sight, Smell, Taste, Touch, Sound
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Good readers ask questions before reading. Read the title and think of a question: The Frozen Sword.
Examples: Whose sword is it? Why is the sword frozen? Will the sword melt and become unfrozen?
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You see a picture of a girl standing outside in the snow. She has a t-shirt on and is huddled up next to her dad. What can you infer from this?
The girl is cold.
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Use your background knowledge the change your thinking about zoos. There should be zoos because they save animals and help people learn a lot about animals. Did you know thirty species of animals were saved because of zoos? Zoos give great care that most animals don't receive in the wild. I am so glad that there are zoos to save animals, what would we do without them?
Explain how your thinking changed...
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How does a reader find the most important details in a paragraph?
A reader finds the most important idea by looking at the parts of the paragraph that support the main idea. These parts are the most important thing for the reader to know.
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Draw a mind movie picture of the following sentence: The waves crashed and danced along the shore, moving up and down in a graceful and gentle rhythm like they were dancing.
Answers vary.
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Good readers ask question during reading. Read the following paragraph and tell two questions that you have. People often have decided where they wanted to live based on the natural resources that were available in the area. Natural resources are things that are useful to people and come from the earth.
Example: What type of resources are available in different places?
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Guess where I am from the following paragraph: The water felt so good on such a hot day. I heard the other children laughing and yelling across the way. The concrete was wet from a group of teenagers splashing each other in the corner. The lifeguard watched closely to keep children from running.
I am at a pool.
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When I am reading and I don't understand I won't be able to synthesize. What should I do?
Go back and reread, ask questions about what I have read, try to visualize what I have read.
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What is the main idea: Many countries have national education programs. Some offer students a very basic education. Often, educational opportunities end with primary school. Parents who want their children to keep going to school have to pay a lot of money. Many students are trained to be skilled workers like carpenters, plumbers, and mechanics. They do this instead of continuing with academics. Only the smartest and richest students get to continue learning academic subjects in some countries.
The main idea of this nonfiction article is public education and schools around the world.
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Draw a picture that shows your mind movie of this sentence: The sunset filled the entire sky with the deep color of rubies, setting the clouds ablaze.
Answers will vary.
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While a reader is reading what type of questions should they have? Give two examples of questions you should have when reading about fish.
Example: How many types of fish are there? What is the biggest fish? What is the smallest fish?
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Who am I? I had finally gotten used to being weightless. It became a comfortable feeling. I especially liked floating by the window to see the planet Earth below.
An astronaut.
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Use your synthesizing skills to put together the following ideas into one story title. A boy is scared. There is lightning and thunder.
Example: Frank's scary lightning adventure.
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You have just finished reading a story about penguins. What type of questions could you have after reading this story?
Example: Where do penguins live? Do I understand what I read? What questions do I still have?
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Draw a picture of the following sentence. Include all the parts of visualizing. The painting was a field of flowers, with deep and rich blues and yellows atop vibrant green stems that seemed to beckon you to reach right in and pick them.
Answers vary.
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Read the following paragraph and think of a question that starts with how or why: Immigrants came to California in the late 1840s and early 1850s for the Gold Rush. Many of them faced awful discrimination. They were not treated fairly by those around them.
Examples: Why were the immigrants discriminated against? How did they deal with the discrimination? Why did people treat them unfairly?
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Who am I? I liked walking next to the covered wagon more than riding in it with my sisters. If I got tired, sometimes my father would let me ride horseback behind him. In the evening, Pa, my brothers and I would sleep under the wagon, while Ma and my sisters slept in the wagon. I hoped we would reach the West soon.
A pioneer boy traveling to the west
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Combine the following ideas into a story title. An Airplane A boy with a suitcase
Example: The Boy's First Flight.
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What is the main idea of the following paragraph? What is one important detail? Do you enjoy optical illusions? How about drawings of things that could never exist in real life? You may already be familiar with some of M.C. Escher’s art. He is famous for his pictures of stairs that go around buildings both upside down and right side up at the same time. He used shading and angles to give us pictures that look realistic and accurate. Yet they also have a little fantasy.
The paragraph is about M.C. Esher. One important detail is that he is famous for being an artist who drew pictures of stairs.
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