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Reading Strategies - WAF 6
Reading Strategies
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English
6th Grade
04/30/2015

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evidence
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a statement or statements that support a main idea
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trait
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a description of qualities of a fictional character or historical person
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claim
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a statement a WRITER makes which is the main idea of a paragraph or essay
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gist
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a statement that summarizes the big ideas of a paragraph or text
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metacognition
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thinking about your thinking as you read or solve a problem
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text-to-text connection
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readers connect what they read with something they have read someplace else
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text-to-self connection
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readers connect what they read with something from their own experiences
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text-to-world connection
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readers connect what they read with they know about the world around them
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goal setting question
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good readers preview titles, headings, pictures, and captions to create this type of question before they read
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Right There question
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answered directly by the text
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Think and Search question
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answered using clues in the text combined with the reader's background knowledge
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On Your Own question
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answered ONLY from the reader's background knowledge
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fact
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a statement that CAN be proved true or false
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opinion
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a statement that CANNOT be proved true or false
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PFAT
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purpose, form, audience, and topic. Before completing a writing task, you should analyze the task to determine these four things.
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Three Purposes for Writing
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persuade, inform, entertain
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Visualizing
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readers create mental pictures based on descriptions and sensory language
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Summarizing
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readers find the gist and most important details of what they read
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Making Connections
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reading strategy in which readers link what they read to ideas from their background knowledge
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Titles, Headings, Pictures, Captions
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good readers preview these to create goal-setting questions and to make predictions
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Context Clues
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Words surrounding unknown words that help readers determine meaning. Good readers use these instead of stopping all the time to use the dictionary.
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Synthesizing
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taking new information and combining it with background knowledge to make something new
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Comparison and Contrast Signal Words
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similarities, diiferences, however, yet
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Sequence Signal Words
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first, then, next, finally
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Cause and Effect Signal Words
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since, as a result, because, consequently
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Problem and Solution Signal Words
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issue, conflict, resolution, answer
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