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Whose Idea?
Those Darn Words and Their Meanings
Organize Your Pattern
You Better Read Actively
Yep! I took notes!
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The sentence that most clearly states a main idea.
What is the topic sentence?
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The three parts from which many English words are formed.
What are Prefix, Suffix, and Root Word.
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With these patterns one would use either a Venn Diagram or a Timeline.
What are Compare/Contrast & Chronological Order?
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The mening of PDR.
What is Plan to read, Do the reading, & Review what you read?
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The three elements of a paragraph.
What are topic, main idea, and supporting details?
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They provide information that qualifies, describes, or explains.
What are minor details?
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With this clue, one would figure out a word by guessing or figuring it out.
What are inference clues?
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This pattern uses transition words such as: therefore, since, leads to, as a result, due to, because, or thus.
What is Cause & Effect?
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The skills that involvle active reading should be done during this time.
What are before, during, and after reading?
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The Three Text Connections
What are text-to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world?
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These details directly explain and support the main idea.
What is a major detail?
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Two common ways writers provide definitions.
What are formal & informal definitions?
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Divides broad topics into major categories based on common or shared characteristics.
What is Classification?
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Educated guesses about the material to be read.
What is making a prediction?
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Author's purpose for writing.
What are to inform, to entrtain, and to persuade?
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This type of idea may not have a topic sentence and contain only details that point to the main idea, but not state directly.
What is an implied main idea.
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The meaning of the fictious word: equimortable.
What is: equi: equal mort: death able: able to meaning: able to die equally
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A statement in the first sentence followed by an explaination.
What is statement & classification?
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four of the six levels of thinking
What are: 1. Remembering 2. Understanding 3. Applying 4. Analyzing 5. Evaluating 6. Creating
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The four types of supporting details.
What are illustration, facts, reasons, & descriptions?
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These are four ways in which one would find the topic sentence.
What are... Topic Detail Detail Detail Detail Detail Detail Detail Detail Detail Topic Topic Detail Topic Detail Detail Detail Detail
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The four types of context clues.
What are: 1. Definition 2. Example 3. Contrast 4. Inference
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Four organizational patterns.
What are comparison/contrast, cause/effect, summary, simple listing, & statement/classification? (name any of the four)
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Three of the five principles of efficiency & flexibility.
What are: 1. You don't have to read everything the same way. 2. Not everything is of equal importance. 3. There are shortcuts 4. Not everything that appears in text is true 5. You can increase your reading rate without losing comprehension.
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The meanings of implicit and explicit texts.
What is a text where the meaning is "right there" & text where one has to infer using background knowledge plus current information in order to infer or assume the meaning?