Sometimes you just have to do this when you come to an unknown word, and hopefully it will be explained later on.
What is Skip It?
100
Purpose, Preview, and Plan.
What is the before reading stage?
100
It's a lot like when you holler at a sports game on the TV, or comment during a really boring, predictable movie.
What is Interacting with the Text?
200
Writing notes in the margins, using post-it notes, highlighting, text coding are all examples.
What is annotating?
200
Being extremely hungry or starving.
What is ravenous?
200
Many times in longer words you can recognize smaller more familiar words within it that help you determine its meaning.
What is Word Parts?
200
Interacting, Annotating, and being Metacognitive.
What is Reading Actively?
200
Titles, subtitles, pictures and captions, charts and graphs, bolded or highlighted words, bullet points, symbols or information in the margins of the book...
What is Text Features?
300
It could be from your teacher, from the textbook, or you may have to come up with it on your own.
What is Purpose?
300
Having a whole lot of something.
What is a plethora?
300
Sometimes you can turn to the person next to you to see if they know the meaning of a word.
What is Ask Someone?
300
Reflect, Reread, and Remember.
What is the After reading stage?
300
When finishing a reading, asking yourself if you understood the reading, and if you've met your purpose.
What is the Reflecting step?
400
Venn Diagrams, T-Charts, 2-Column Notes, Etch-A-Sketch are all examples of these.
What are Graphic Organizers?
400
Agreeing, or being in agreement with someone.
What is concur?
400
Sometimes a regular dictionary, or using dictionary.com is the thing to do.
What is "Look it up?"
400
In this step, you preview all of the text features and think about what you may already know.
What is the Previewing step?
400
When you get done reading, there may be some information you didn't find, or a portion of the reading that was still unclear.
What is the Rereading step?
500
Sometimes when reading, you combine what your learning with what you already know from your own experiences to draw a conclusion.
What is an Inference?
500
The physical closeness of one object or person to another.
What is proximity?
500
If you run into a word you don't know during reading, you can read the sentences before and after the sentence with the unknown word to try and figure out its meaning.
What is Context Clues?
500
Your teacher may hand you a graphic organizer or worksheet, a graphic organizer may be suggested by your textbook, or you may determine the text structure to select a graphic organizer on your own.
What is the Plan step?
500
Making the information your own through annotating, color-coding, adding pictures or graphics, writing about your subject or talking about it with others is good for this.