A statement of the main idea of the story, it's very essence, it's core.
What is Summarize?
100
The status acquired by a person through birth; a birthright.
What is Heritage?
100
A rundown, low-rental apartment building whose facilities and maintenance barely meet minimum standards.
What is Tenement?
100
The passing down of elements of a culture from generation to generation, especially by oral communication.
What is Tradition?
200
A graphic design that explains rather than represents; especially : a drawing that shows arrangement and relations (as of parts).
What is diagram?
200
Using sensory images like dramatizing and drawing to help better understand what you are reading.
What is Visualize?
200
Of, relating to, or characteristic of a sizable group of people sharing a common and distinctive racial, national, religious, linguistic, or cultural heritage.
What is Ethnic?
200
1. To employ to the greatest possible advantage.
2. To make use of selfishly or unethically.
What is Exploit?
200
To state, tell about, or make known in advance, especially on the basis of special knowledge. Decide what is going to happen next.
What is Predict?
300
Comparison of similar objects to set off their dissimilar qualities : the state of being so compared.
What is Contrast?
300
Use your personal experience to help you understand what you don't know.
What is Connect?
300
A shop or factory in which employees work long hours at low wages under poor conditions.
What is Sweatshop?
300
A number or percentage, especially of people, constituting or designated as an upper limit.
What is Quota?
300
To trouble, torment, or confuse by continual persistent attacks, questions, etc.
What is harass?
400
To explain or tell the meaning of : present in understandable terms OR to represent by means of art : bring to realization by performance or direction.
What is Interpret?
400
Do this before, during and after reading to seek answers to deepen your understanding of the text.
What is Question the Text?
400
Irrational suspicion or hatred of a particular group, race, or religion.
What is Prejudice?
400
To move from one country or region and settle in another.
What is Migrate?
400
To express at greater length or in greater detail.
What is Elaborate?
500
To study or determine the nature and relationship of the parts.
What is Analyze?
500
Connecting the dots between what the author says and what he implies, or leaves unsaid. To use clues from the text or your prior knowledge.
What is Inference?
500
The status of belonging to a particular nation by origin, birth, or naturalization.
What is Nationality?
500
An official authorization appended to a passport, permitting entry into and travel within a particular country or region.
What is Visa?
500
Strategies that you use while reading or when you run into a sticking point while reading.