Literary terms vocabulary

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to plan

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to set a purpose before you read

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to monitor

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to make predictions and then read to confirm them, and to figure out confusing text by rereading or reading on

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to visualize

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to picture sensory details in your mind

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to make inferences

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to know something even though the author doesn't tell you directly

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to ask questions

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to ask about things you don't know, and to look for clues in the text

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to synthesize

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to bring several ideas together to understand something new

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to make connections

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to connect what you read with what you have read or experienced

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to determine importance

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to identify and summarize the most important ideas

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characters

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the people or animals in a story

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dialogue

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conversation between characters