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12 Strategies
Language Arts
Term | Definition |
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Close Reading | Reading word for word,sentence by sentence, or line by line. |
Cause and Effect | To focus on the process in which one event brings about another. |
Note Taking | Remembering the key facts and details from a reading. |
Outlining | Helps you organize information into topics and subtopics. |
Paraphrasing | Using your own words to tell what you've read,heard, or seen. Helpful strategy for visuals. |
Questioning the Author | Asking questions as you read such as why the author wrote this. |
Reading Critically | Finding and evaluating the author's main idea in a piece of writing. |
Skimming | To glance quickly through a selection. |
Summarizing | Retelling the main ideas or events in your own words. |
Synthesizing | You look at a number of different elements of a text and decide how they affect the selection or subject as a whole. |
Graphic Organizer | Charts, graphs webs, diagrams, or any other visual to help you understand a selection. |
Visulizing | Making a mental picture or sketch of the words on a page and talking through your ideas about what you're reading. |