Previewing
T stands for?
What is Title?
What is active reading for?
To ask yourself two questions during the reading: Connection and Authors purpose
How do you find the main idea?
It is in the introduction, title, headings or key details
What is context meaning?
It is looking around an unknown word for the meaning of that word in the text.
What is main idea?
Its what the text is all about
Why is I so important to find?
Because it is where the summary and main idea are found
What are the types of connection?
text to others
text to community/world
text to text
How do you find the theme?
You think about the life lesson given or implied
What is a type of context meaning strategy?
varied: synonyms
examples, explanations of the word, word parts, background knowledge
Key details, introduction, title and headings help determine what?
the main idea
What if there are vocabulary words that you do not recognize or know?
Do not look them up in the dictionary yet; use context clues around the word to determine the meaning first.
What are the types of Authors Purpose?
To persuade
to entertain
to inform
How do you answer end of chapter questions correctly?
By splitting your screen and referring back to the text for the evidence
What does context meaning help us with?
What the author meaning is for the word. Word meanings change!
What is the life lesson?
The theme or moral
The end of chapter questions are important for?
To preview what you need to find/remember/and pay attention to in the text.
What does the author use as a way of describing their thoughts with word choices?
What is figurative language?
What is P.O.V.?
Authors Point of View
What is a synonym?
A more common word that means the same as the word in question.
How many types of themes are there?
Major and minor themes
What are the two main previewing strategies to practice PRIOR to reading anything?
THIEVES and CONTEXT meaning of Vocabulary
When it is raining cats and dogs...it is what?
Hyperbole and idiom
What are the types of P.O.V.?
First person
Second person
Third person- limited and all knowing
What does the prefix, root and suffix help us understand?
When we break up words into parts, we can understand each word part meaning to determine the overall meaning of the word in question.
pre- before
ology- study of
root- play
To think and comprehend better when reading!