Reading Strategies
Which reading strategy is defined as "The pictures we create in our minds while we are reading"
Visualizing
What are context clues?
Context clues are hints that an author gives to help define a difficult or unusual word.
What is a root word?
A root word does not have a prefix or suffix attached to it but can have one added to change the meaning.
What is a noun?
Person, place, or thing
Cornell notes are due on ...
Friday
What is a "Text-to-Self Connection"?
Refers to connections made between the text and the reader's personal experience
Mr. Santacruz enjoys spending his leisure time hiking, reading, and going to the beach.
What type of context clues does this sentence use?
example context clues
Latin and Greek
Give an example of an abstract noun.
emotions
In the the story "My Name" the main character refers to her great-grandmother as a _________ woman.
Horse
Reading between the lines is also known as?
Inferring
What is a "Explanation context clue"?
A defenition and/or explanation of the word.
True or False:
The word conform uses the root word form. (meaning shape)
True
What is a pronoun?
a word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g., I, you ) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse (e.g., she, it, this ).
Free points!!!!!!!
Define Synthesizing.
A process where students merge new information with prior knowledge to form a new idea, perspective, or opinion.
What is the tyoe of context clue in the following sentence:
When the light brightens, the pupils of the eyes contract; however, when it grows darker, they dilate.
CONTRAST CLUE
What does root word ped means? and use it in a word.
Feet
ex: pedicure
______: are used when referring to something non-specific
Indefinite Pronouns
According to you reading, why did Christopher Columbus set sail to India?
For spices.
List 5 out of the 7 reading strategies.
Inferring
Summarizing
Questioning
Determining Importance
Visualizing
Synthesizing
Making Connections/ Building Background
What type of context clue:
The mountain pass was a tortuous road, winding and twisting like a snake around the trees of the mountainside.
SYNONYM CONTEXT CLUE
True or False:
Root words and Base words are the same thing.
False
Name 5 of the 8 pronoun types.
1. Personal Pronouns
2. Demonstrative Pronouns
3. Relative Pronouns
4. Reciprocal Pronouns
5. Indefinite Pronouns
6. Interrogative Pronouns
7. Reflexive Pronouns
8. Intensive Pronouns
What was the name of the narrator in "The House on Mango Street"?
Esperanza