Reading for Meaning

What is the first reading strategy you use to improve your comprehension?

• 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

Explain the GIST strategy of reading comprehension.

• Survey, question, read, recite, and review.

• "GIST" means the main point. In this strategy, you focus on short passages of 3-5 paragraphs and create summaries for each passage.

• Think aloud quoting of main concepts at the end of each chapter.

• Reading the entire text aloud to hear the major points or ideas.

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

• Open ended, closed ended or multiple choice

• Short answer, long answer or true and false

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

• All of the above

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

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

• Equating an unknown word with a word you already know

• Looking for prefix and suffix clues on word construction

• A graphic organized that helps you learn new vocabulary

What is the purpose of a word map?

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

• To help you understand how texts are organized

• To help you solve crossword puzzles

• None of the above

"A word or expression of the same language that has the same or nearly the same meaning."

• Concept

• Appositive

• Context

• Synonym