Pre Reading Strategies
This includes quickly looking through the reading material and checking out bold heading, pictures and vocabulary.
What is skimming and scanning?
This is the dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
These may be left out and the main idea would still be clear.
What are minor details?
This is when a reader quickly reads over material to get the main idea of the entire reading, looking at picture and headings.
What is skimming?
Considering the sponsor or author of a website, the dates created, or whether the information corroborates to other websites
What is evaluating a website or finding the validity of a website?
This is how to connect to the material.
What is using prior knowledge about the topic?
This is the suggested meaning of a word.
What is connotation?
This is the ultimate goal of any reader.
What is comprehension or understanding?
This 5 step method uses index cards to record key information and vocabulary words and definitions
What is 5C textbook reading method?
Google, Bing, or Youtube search
What are search engines?
This is using the title and pictures to help make guesses about what will happen in the text.
What is making predictions?
This is knowing how to divide words into parts (root words, prefixes, and suffixes) which enables a reader to sound out or pronounce words to gain meaning.
What is Word Analysis?
This is the general subject of a passage that can be stated in a word or phrase.
What is the topic?
This type of note taking occurs directly in a text or book.
What are annotations?
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?
This is using the title to guess what the story is about?
What is using prior knowledge to help make predictions?
These are words and sentences around a word that can give clues to its meaning.
What are context clues?
This is the point that is being made about the topic. It may stated or implied.
What is the main idea?
This includes the preface and table of contents and appendices.
What are textbook organizational aids?
This is an automatic address jump to another web site containing similar or more information on your topic
What is a hyperlink, hotlink, or link?
This is asking what questions need to be answered?
What is setting your purpose?
This type of context clue uses background knowledge, common sense, and the way the unknown word is used in the sentence to figure out meaning.
What is an inference context clue?
These are found by using the 5 W's and H questions?
What are the major details?
This textbook reading method is a 5 step method involving surveying, questioning, reading, reciting and reviewing.
What is SQ3R?
This entails determining the purpose of the search, analyzing a site for ease of use and validity and then citing that information in a required format.
What is evaluating and citing web sources?