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Topic
Context Clues
Memory
Reading Strategies
Vocabulary
100
What a topic is.
What is who or what the passage is about
100
What context clues help you do
What is identify the meaning of an unfamiliar word
100
When something appeals to your senses and catches your attention, it is part of this memory.
What is sensory memory
100
This reading strategy allows you to make the connection between what you already know about a topic, goals you have for the reading, and new information you have learned.
What is KWL
100
Any word that includes the word part, 'audio,' will relate to this.
What is hearing or sound
200
How a topic is written
What is a word or phrase
200
The four types of context clues
What are definition, inference, antonym, and synonym
200
The short-term or working memory can only store about this many pieces of information at a time.
What is seven to nine
200
This strategy involves quickly scanning a reading helps you consider what you already know about a topic, connects your prior knowledge to the reading, and primes your brain for learning new information.
What is surveying
200
Any word that includes the word part, 'scrib/script,' will relate to this.
What is writing
300
A topic can be found in these locations.
What is in the title, boldfaced words, or words repeated in a passage
300
This type of context clue often includes the definition of a term in bold or italics.
What is a definition clue
300
In order to help your working memory organize the information, you can use this memory strategy to group information together.
What is chunking
300
This strategy involves skimming the reading more closely to determine important features of the passage, like the structure.
What is previewing
300
'your' means 'belonging to you' while 'you're' means this.
What is 'you are'
400
You can ask this question to help identify the topic in a passage.
What is who or what is the passage about?
400
This context clue forces you to make an educated guess based on information and reasonable deduction from the sentence or surrounding sentences.
What is an inference clue?
400
By activating this bank of knowledge in your long-term memory, you think about what you already know about a subject before trying to learn more about the topic.
What is prior knowledge or background knowledge
400
SQ3R and SQ4R are very similar and both include these five steps.
What are survey, question, read, recite, review
400
The word part, 'inter' means this.
What is between
500
By identifying a clear topic of a passage, you can create these types of questions to help focus your reading and improve comprehension.
What are guide questions
500
These clues will include a word that is either means the same or the opposite of the unfamiliar word.
What are synonym and antonym clues
500
These strategies were promoted by our class during our memory commercials.
What are combining review with physical activity, trying a relaxed review, acronyms, mnemonics, association, visualization, organizational technique, sleeping on it, or remembering key words
500
PQ4R includes this prereading step plus this R from the SQ4R strategy.
What is preview and reflect
500
This word means thinking about what you're thinking about.
What is metacognition