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| thinking about your thinking as you read or solve a problem |
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| answered directly by the text |
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| Think and Search question |
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| answered using clues in the text combined with the reader's background knowledge |
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| answered ONLY from the reader's background knowledge |
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| good readers preview titles, headings, pictures, and captions to create this type of question before they read |
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| Titles, Headings, Pictures, Captions |
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| good readers preview these to create goal-setting questions and to make predictions |
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| How and Why question words |
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| best to use for goal-setting questions. They require longer answers that would give you the gist. |
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| Who, What, Where, When question words |
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| best for specific details questions |
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| reading strategy in which readers link what they read to ideas from their background knowledge |
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| readers connect what they read with something they have read someplace else |
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| readers connect what they read with something from their own experiences |
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| readers connect what they read with what they know about the world around them |
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| purpose, form, audience, and topic. Before completing a writing task, you should analyze the task to determine these four things. |
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| Three Purposes for Writing |
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| persuade, inform, entertain |
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| a statement a WRITER makes which is the main idea of a paragraph or essay |
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| a statement that summarizes the big ideas of a paragraph or text |
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| a statement or statements that support a main idea |
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| a description of qualities of a fictional character or historical person |
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| a statement that can be proved true or false |
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| a statement that cannot be proved true or false |
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| the problem the main character must solve |
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| the solution to the character's problem |
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| the highest point of tension and suspense in the story |
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| the events in the story that occur after the conflict and build toward the climax |
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| the events in the story that occur after the climax and build toward the resolution |
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| the underlying message or "big idea" of the story |
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| readers create mental pictures based on descriptions and sensory language |
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| readers find the gist and most important details of what they read |
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| Words surrounding unknown words that help readers determine meaning. Good readers uses these instead of stopping all the time to use the dictionary. |
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