Reading Comprehension
This is your mental filing cabinet or things you already know.
What is schema?
This means to feel extremely happy.
What is on top of the world?
To be hopeful and confident about the future.
What is optimistic?
a unit of sound that can distinguish one word from another.
What is visualizing?
This means to go out of your way for someone.
What is bending over backwards?
To keep working towards your dreams even when it gets hard.
What is perseverance?
a syllable that ends in a vowel. The vowel has a long sound.
Example: fly, she, me, so
What is a open syllable?
This means to think about your thinking when reading.
What is metacognition?
This means that it's easy to do.
What is a piece of cake?
To be cautious and plan for something in future.
What is prudence?
Example: cat, patch, grass
What is a closed syllable?
Going beyond the author's words to understand what is not said.
What is inferencing?
This means to have a lot of fun.
What is having a ball?
This is the ability to understand your own and other people's feelings and actions.
What is social intelligence?
When two consonants that are together and represent one new sound.
Example: ch, sh, th, wh, ck
What is a digraph?
This is when you put it all together when reading as your thinking changes.
schema + new information= new understanding
What is synthesizing?
What is the apple of your eye?
The use of the imagination or original ideas.
What is creativity?
When three letters are used to represent one sound or phoneme.
Example: tch, igh, air, dge
What is a trigraph?