Pre-Reading
making a guess before reading on
What is a prediction?
An author repeats words throughout the passage
What is to emphasize the importance of something
The most important thought of the paragraph and can be found in the first sentence
What is main idea
K-W-L ...what does each stand for
What is what I know, what I want to know and what I learned
What is one thing you should do prior to reading a passage that includes questions?
What is read the questions first.
marking your text with highlighter or pen
What is annotating?
Persuade, inform, or entertain
what is author's purpose (why the author writes)
PIE stands for the author's ____
What is purpose
When reading a passage with illustrations, charts, etc.
What is you should look at those before reading to help set a purpose.
Reading a passage more than one time while annotating
What is CLOSE reading
this is something you do when you need to write a written summary or tell what you just read
What is look at annotations
When reading, a good reader can make ___ with the texts
what is connections
An activity where you read quickly through the text before and after a close reading.
What is skim
to identify the meaning of unknown words using the words around them
What are context clues?
re-reading text
What a good reader does when they don't understand what they've read
A way to expand your vocabulary
be an ongoing reader of novels, magazines, etc.
Setting purpose for reading
What reading questions, titles, subtitles before reading
language used by poets, novelists and other writers to create images in the mind of the reader.
what is imagery
when writing a summary, the reader should include
text details
Reaching a conclusion based on evidence given
making an inference