Reading for Meaning

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When should you do a mini-review of complex written materials?

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At the end of each paragraph.

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What three types of questions can you ask to help you comprehend written materials?

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Empirical or fact-based questions, values or opinion questions, and analytical or definition questions.

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What is an "analogy"?

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The linking of new information with your prior knowledge; resemblance in some particulars between things otherwise unlike.

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What does the directed reading - thinking activity strategy (DR-TA strategy) involve when reading history?

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Before each chapter and section, he predicts what he thinks is the author's purpose for writing.

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What question did you remember from class? Options: "Why do I have to read this?", "How difficult is reading this going to be?", "What is my purpose for reading this?", "Why can't students choose what to read?"

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"What is my purpose for reading this?"

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You read for enjoyment, but you also read to improve your reading ability. One of your classmates, a star basketball player, says that she always sees you reading, and that she wishes she could be as good a reader as you. Then she says, "I have to go to basketball practice." Just then you realize you can use her basketball skills to help her understand how to become a better reader. Which of the following should you say? Options: If you stop playing basketball, you will become a better reader., If you practice reading as much as basketball, then you will become a better reader., Since you're already good at basketball, you should practice reading instead of basketball., I'm good at reading, and you're good at basketball, so we all have our strengths.

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If you practice reading as much as basketball, then you will become a better reader.

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What is the purpose of a word map?

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It is a graphic organizer that helps you learn new words or concepts.

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What is a "contrast clue" in reading for meaning?

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Looking for how a new word you are learning is different from a word you know.

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What is the first reading strategy you use to improve your comprehension? Options: Summarizing each paragraph as you read it, Previewing or scanning the material, Having someone explain the gist of the material to you, Writing down questions you hope to have answered in the material.

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Previewing or scanning the material.

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Name the four reading comprehension strategies.

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Directed Reading-Thinking Activity, GIST, Think-Alouds, and Question-Answer Relationships.