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Reading Strategies

My 12 reading Strategies

TermDefinition
Main Idea Main point of the story
Facts and Details Points that support the main idea
Compare and contrast Compare is alike contrast is diffrent
Summarizing Saying what the story is about
Author's Purpose Why an author wrote a story. 3 main types. Inform, Persuade, and entertain.
Sequence Things happen in an order
Cause and effect A cause is why something happens and an effect is the event that happens because of that
Making Predictions readers use information from a text (including titles, headings, pictures, and diagrams) and their own personal experiences to anticipate what they are about to read (or what comes next).
Drawing Conclusions and Making Inferences Creating a personal meaning to the text.
Interpreting Figurative Language Understanding the meaning of a simile, a metaphor, or an idiom. A simile is comparing things using like or as, a metaphor is comparing things not using like or as and an idiom is a sentence having a different meaning then it is supposed to
Word meaning in context Using other words in a sentence to understand an unknown word
Distinguishing between fact and opinion figuring out if a statement is a fact or an opinion. A fact is a statement that can be proven true or false. An opinion is an expression of a person's feelings that cannot be proven
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