Reading Strategies
Picturing sensory details in your mind is:
Visualization
Conflict is:
a problem.
Monitor is:
to keep track of or to check.
Failure is:
is a bad result.
Combining what you read with what you know to figure out what the author doesn’t say directly is:
Making inferences
Identifying and summarizing the most important details is:
Determining importance
Setting is:
the time and place of a story.
Belief is:
is something you think is true.
Misfortune is:
something bad that happens that you did not expect.
Asking about things you don’t know and looking for clues in the text is:
Asking questions
Brining several ideas together to understand something new is:
Synthesizing
A character is:
a person (or animal) in a story.
Escape is:
to get free.
Mistaken is:
mixed up, confused.
Sequence is:
the order in which things happen.
Making predictions and then reading on to confirm them is:
Planning and monitoring
Dialogue is:
what the characters say to each other; the characters’ words.
Evidence is:
clues of proof that something is true.
Superstition is:
is an idea based on fear, not logic.
Clarify is:
to make clear and understandable; to get rid of confusion.
Connecting what you read with what you have read or experienced is:
Making connections
Plot is:
the series of events that make up a story.
Experiment is:
a test or trial.
Foot in the door means:
An arm and a leg means:
the chance to do something that could lead to further opportunities.
extremely expensive, costs a lot of money.
Predict is:
to tell in advance.