Prereading Strategies
Making guesses about I think will happen
What is making predictions?
Continue thinking about the title and pictures to help me decide what will happen next
What is predicting or verifying?
Checking to see if I met my purpose
What is setting a purpose?
Comparing two things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
These are used to create visual representations of ideas, facts, theories and concepts
What are graphic organizers?
What is previewing the material or skimming and scanning
Try to answer the questions I asked myself
What is self questioning for comprehension?
Retelling the main points of the whole passage
What is summarizing?
A type of writing organization that relates a series of events
What is a narrative?
What is evaluating a website or finding the validity of a website?
Thinking about where the story might be taking place
What is using my background knowledge or using what I know already
Writing in the margins or in my notebook about something I need to know
What is taking notes?
Think about what made me make good or bad predictions
What is predicting and verifying?
A deliberate overstatement or exaggeration to make an impression
What is hyperbole?
This is an innerconnected hyperbased network that allows you to browse a variety of internet resources by home pages.
What is the world wide web or WWW?
Asking questions I would like to have answered
What is self questioning or setting a purpose?
Keep thinking about what I already know about the things and ideas in the story to help me decide what is going to happen
What is using background knowledge?
Thinking about what I learned and how I can use that information
What is summarizing, reflecting, or finding purpose?
What is cause and effect?
Google, Bing, or Youtube search
What are search engines?
Using my questions and guesses as a reason for reading
What is setting a purpose for reading?
Reread some parts or read ahead to see if I can figure out what is happening if things aren't making sense
What is summarizing and using fix up strategies?
Think about how I would have acted if I were the main character in the story
What is using my background knowledge?
Giving human qualities to an object, animal or an idea to bring life and meaning to a description and to help readers form mental pictures
What is personification?
A graphic organizer that helps to organize information according to similarities and differences
What is a Venn Diagram?