Reading Strategies
This reading strategy is used when you retell a text with fewer words.
Summarizing
The word part that is at the end of the base word.
Suffix
The number of national parks is ...
63
Tie Sing's handwritten notes went into these on the last night.
Fortune Cookies
Photographs/illustrations, captions, maps, and text boxes are all examples of text features.
True
This reading strategy is used when you relate to something in the text.
Text to Self Connection
The prefix that means "again".
"re-"
The National Park where Tie Sing worked as a cook.
Yosemite
The animal Tie Sing used to carry his cooking stuff.
Mule
Tie Sing had a birth certificate.
False
This reading strategy is used when you use what you know about the text to make a good guess of what might happen next.
Making Inferences
The suffix that means "full of".
"-ful"
The famous mountain chef who has a peak named after him.
Tie Sing
The year Tie Sing was hired to work for millionaire Stephen Mather, who was convincing lawmakers to create the National Park Service.
1915
The smallest is Wrangell-Saints. Elias National Park, Alaska
False, it is six times the size of Yellowstone
This reading strategy is used when you create a picture in your head about what is happening.
Visualization
The word part that is at the beginning of the base word.
Prefix
The organization that works to keep the parks safe and well-taken care of.
National Park Service (NPS)
The person who hired Tie Sing to be a trail cook.
Stephen Mather
Expository nonfiction is a text that uses pictures and words to help readers learn and understand.
False
This reading strategy is used when you look for the most important things to remember.
Determining Importance
The syllable type where the vowel says its name and is at the end of the syllable.
Opened Syllable
The number of visitors that Yosemite gets every year.
More than 4 million.
The two languages that Tie Sing knew how to write in.
English and Chinese
The lowest is Badwater Basin, in Death Valley National Park in California.
True, it is the lowest point in North America and the hottest.