Reading Strategies

Analyze

• a short statement that gives the main points of a story

• to look closely at and think about what you are reading

Annotate

• to write your own thoughts in a text

• to bring all ideas together to understand something new

summarize

• a short statement that gives the main ideas of a story

• to look closely at and think about what you are reading

synthesis

• picture sensory details in your mind- sight sound touch smell taste

• to bring all ideas together to understand something new

Visualize

• use what you read and already know to figure out what the author does not tell you directly

• picture sensory details in your mind- sight sound touch taste smell

structure

• how something is set up

• to write your own thoughts in the text

inference

• use what you read and already know to figure out what the author does not tell you directly

• how something is set up

Literary devices

• to provide evidence to support or prove the truth

• these help a writer tell a story or make appoint

substantiate

• to provide evidence to support or prove the truth

• to bring all ideas together to understand something new