MTEL Communication & Literacy

Background knowledge

• Seeing a picture in your head while you read a text.

• Adding new knowledge learned from text to previous knowledge in order to better understand what you read.

• Looking quickly at the text for a general idea of what it is about.

• Background knowledge

Supporter; follower; 2. biased; one-sided

• plausible

• partake

• unbiased

• partisan

lazy; inactive

• indulgent

• diligent

• indolent

• innocuous

prosaic

• to loath; to hate

• tiresome; ordinary

• difficult; burdensome

• Unchangeable; permanent

Another word that means the same as allure

• charisma

• repulsion

• refusal

• deterstation

cunning;shy;crafty

• Astute

• Inept

• audacious

• ameliorate

A clue in text that includes finding the meaning of an unknown word through the overall message of the sentence. For instance, "We ate _______ that had peanut butter and jelly in them."

• Semantic Clue

• Syntactic Clue

• Structural clue

• Expository Clue

Skills used when reading that evaluate the author's ideas, supporting details, evidence, and bias.

• Identify the bias in a paragraph

• Predicting

• Critical Reasoning Skills

• When you read and connect the text to your life, the world around you, or a previously read text.

i.e. Bold, italics, table of contents, index, glossary, page number, ect.

• Semantic Clue

• Text Features

• Syntactic Clue

• Graphic Clue

When evaluating author's purpose, ask all the following...

• Is the author trying to persuade?

• Is the author only trying to inform?

• Is the author trying to entertain?

• All the answers are correct.