Active Reading Strategies

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Purpose of active reading strategies?

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Deeper and more effective understanding of reading.

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Finding a new word and predicting its meaning using surrounding words.

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contextual clues

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Create a mental image from text details.

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visualize

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Use facts and personal knowledge to understand text.

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inference

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Readers engage with text by asking questions about it and the author's intentions, seeking information to clarify and extend their thinking before, during, and after reading.

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questioning

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Readers quickly view material for an overall understanding without reading everything.

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skimming

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Benefits of active reading strategies?

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All of the above

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Using text clues to determine the topic or next event.

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predict

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Readers locate specific info in a text (e.g. names, dates) without reading everything.

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scanning

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Determine what the text says explicitly and make logical inferences; cite specific evidence to support conclusions.

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close reading