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thinking about your thinking as you read or solve a problem |
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a statement that summarizes the big ideas of a paragraph or text |
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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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good readers preview titles, headings, pictures, and captions to create this type of question before they read |
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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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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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readers create mental pictures based on descriptions and sensory language |
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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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a statement a WRITER makes which is the main idea of a paragraph or essay |
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a statement or statements that support a main idea |
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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 to what they know about the world around them |
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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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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 use these instead of stopping all the time to use the dictionary. |
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taking new information and combining it with background knowledge to make something new |
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