Reading Techniques

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This type of language relates to your five senses. It creates imagery and helps you imagine the reading.

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Sensory

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What reading technique does this photo reference?

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Imagination

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What do you do when you make a list, and what is the purpose of it?

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Look at questions first, make a list what each is looking for, read the story with this in mind. When you read, you'll already be looking for answers.

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What are the reading techniques we discussed in class?

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Imagination, making a list, making connections, main ideas

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What are the three types of connections you can make?

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Text to self, text to text, text to world

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Select the best summary for the following paragraph: When she first began doing performance art, what she called “radio plays” in Portland, she would often do them as an opening act at punk shows. The audience would ignore or even boo her. “I figured out very quickly that a really good response to being heckled was to get even more vulnerable,” she writes in her monograph. “Like, ‘You are trying to shame me for being myself but guess what, I think shame is really interesting! So thank you for giving me this opportunity to explore it so publicly with you.’”

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The performer started creating radio plays. People's reaction were rude. Instead of getting upset, she was vulnerable with them. She would confront them in a useful way.

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What is the best paraphrase of the paragraph: When she first began doing performance art, what she called “radio plays” in Portland, she would often do them as an opening act at punk shows. The audience would ignore or even boo her. “I figured out very quickly that a really good response to being heckled was to get even more vulnerable,” she writes in her monograph. “Like, ‘You are trying to shame me for being myself but guess what, I think shame is really interesting! So thank you for giving me this opportunity to explore it so publicly with you.’”

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When the lady starting performance art, she made "radio plays," in Portland, Oregon. These shows were inspired by punk shows. The audience was not nice as they booed or ignored her. She said that she knew the best way to approach it was to be more vulnerable with the audience. She would confront them about their actions. She used it as a conversation starter asking telling them that she loved talking about shame. She then would thank them for giving her the chance to speak about it.

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What should you do when answering questions with a text (STAAR test)?

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Read the questions first, make a list, read the story looking for things on your list, go back to the questions, mark out obviously wrong answers, pick the best answer

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Where do you look in each paragraph for the main idea?

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It is often in the topic sentence or the first sentences of the paragraph.