Reading Strategies

Front

What is the most useful strategy to figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word?

Back

Check its context.

Front

If a passage in one of your textbooks doesn't make sense when you first read it, what is the most likely explanation?

Back

You skipped or misread a few words.

Front

When you read the title and look at the picture before you start to read, you are ______________.

Back

planning

Front

When you paint a picture in your head of what you are reading, this is called ________________.

Back

Visualizing

Front

When you don't understand something you need to ____________. This means, check the context for clues.

Back

monitor

Front

When you read something, you don't need to remember every detail, just the important stuff. This is called _________ ____________?

Back

Determining Importance

Front

What helps us decide our purpose for reading and understand what it's about?

Back

Planning

Front

It's easier to _____________ something, when the writer uses lots of descriptive language and describes it very well.

Back

all of the above

Front

If you were talking about shoes, determine which one of these would be LEAST important: Nike, How to tie laces, Fruit, Shoe prices.

Back

Fruit

Front

Determine Importance: Which of these is the least important to the overall meaning of Hitching a Ride? Options:

Greg Marshall saw a remora attached to a shark and thought of a good idea

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Before this, scientists had never seen footage of a whale diving underwater

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Greg Marshall usually wears glasses

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The invention was called Crittercam

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Greg Marshall usually wears glasses