Asking a question before reading, to help you find the important information during reading.
What is Setting a Purpose?
100
The type of words you use to describe nouns.
What are adjectives?
100
The thought process for this map is describing.
What is a Bubble Map?
100
WHAT the text is about. It is sometimes referred to as the subject.
What is the topic?
100
This is why you preview a text before reading
What is to identify the topic, so you will know what you are going to be reading about.
200
After reading Stop and Think. Ask yourself: Did I understand? Can I answer my purpose question? Do I need to re-read?
What is Pause and Reflect?
200
The type of words you use to describe verbs.
What are adverbs?
200
The thought process for this map is Classifying. Other key words that mean categorizing are: kinds of, types of, categorizing, main idea and details
What is a Tree Map?
200
This map works well when identifying the main idea, supporting ideas, and specific details.
What is a tree map?
200
This is called Reading with a Purpose
What is "keep your purpose question in mind during reading, and look for the answer to this question"?
300
During reading, use your background knowledge to increase your understanding of new information.
What is Making Connections?
300
Making a mental picture in your mind during reading to increase your understanding.
What is Visualizing?
300
The thought process for this map is brainstorming.
What is a Circle Map?
300
This is the very first step to identifying the main idea. You read titles and headings, read the first sentence, and then look for repeated words through out the text.
What is Identify the topic?
300
This is when you use your background knowledge and clues from the text to figure out something that is not directly stated in the text. This is not a wild guess. It is sometimes called an "educated guess"
What is Making an Inference?
400
After reading, do something with the information in the text to help you learn it. You can discuss it with others, write a summary, or take notes in a Thinking Map.
What is Remember?
400
Discussing your ideas, and sharing your thinking out loud to help increase your understanding, identify what is confusing, and to help you remember information.
What is Thinking Aloud?
400
The thought process for this map is sequencing.
What is a Flow Map?
400
After identifying the topic, this is the first place you look for the main idea of a paragraph.
What is the first sentence?
400
This information supports, explains, or proves the main idea .
What are supporting details?
500
Before reading, decide HOW you will read by choosing some strategies to use. These strategies will help you understand and/or remember the information in the text.
What is Making a Plan?
500
Reading and re-reading line by line, or word by word to help you understand poetry, text containing new or difficult information.
What is Close Reading?
500
The thought process for this map is cause and effect.
What is a Multi-Flow?
500
If the main idea is not directly stated, this is what you should do.
What is Read the whole paragraph, and ask yourself what important idea the details are telling about. You will need to figure this out by making an inference.
500
This is what the author wants you to know about the topic.