Comprehension Strategies

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Reading Comprehension is

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understanding what we read.

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An inference is...

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text evidence + what you know.

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To make an inference you take what you know, and what the author tells you to…

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come up with something the author doesn't tell you.

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Creating mental images of the settings, characters, and events in the text is called __________.

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Visualizing

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What does the strategy of clarifying involve for a reader?

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stopping when he/she is confused to reread

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When should a reader stop and clarify?

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When she comes to an unknown word, something doesn't make sense, or he can't remember what he just read.

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When a reader comes to a word he cannot pronounce, the FIRST thing he should do is: ask the teacher, break it into smaller chunks and/or look for known roots, prefixes, or suffixes, look it up on dictionary.com, ask another student.

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break it into smaller chunks and/or look for known roots, prefixes, or suffixes

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Things readers can do when clarifying include all of the following EXCEPT: read the text at a faster rate, go back and reread part of the text, adjust your reading rate to go slower, use context clues to help figure out tricky words.

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read the text at a faster rate

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To infer, a reader must...

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figure out something that wasn't completely explained in the text.

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Accessing Schema is...

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recalling information you ALREADY know about a topic.