KJH Reading Strategies Vocabulary 8th Grade ELA

Prediction means...

• Placing the events, ideas, or details of a text in order from beginning to end.

• A statement of ideas or information that a passage of text will discuss

• what a piece of writing is mainly about--the BIG PICTURE

• a section of text

summarizing is...

• Reader's knowledge about the topic from your own experience - needed to make connections

• creating questions about the text that are not answered in the text

• A conclusion reached by finding and putting together clues and evidence from the text

• Briefly stating the main points and key details of a work IN YOUR OWN WORDS..

Visualize means...

• form a mental image of something; imagine

• Placing the events, ideas, or details of a text in order from beginning to end.

• what a piece of writing is mainly about--the BIG PICTURE

• readers relate what they read to personal experiences

Questioning is....

• readers relate what they read to personal experiences

• A conclusion reached by finding and putting together clues and evidence from the text

• creating questions about the text that are not answered in the text

• Reader's knowledge about the topic from your own experience - needed to make connections

Background knowledge is...

• A statement of ideas or information that a passage of text will discuss

• Reader's knowledge about the topic from your own experience - needed to make connections

• A section of text

• form a mental image of something; imagine

Making connections means...

• Placing the events, ideas, or details of a text in order from beginning to end.

• Briefly stating the main points and key details of a work IN YOUR OWN WORDS..

• readers relate what they read to personal experiences (text-to-self), to information from other texts (text-to-text), and to information about the world (text-to-world

• form a mental image of something; imagine

Sequencing means...

• what a piece of writing is mainly about--the BIG PICTURE

• creating questions about the text that are not answered in the text

• Briefly stating the main points and key details of a work IN YOUR OWN WORDS..

• Placing the events, ideas, or details of a text in order from beginning to end.

Main Idea (or Central Idea) means...

• what a piece of writing is mainly about--the BIG PICTURE

• Reader's knowledge about the topic from your own experience - needed to make connection

• A statement of ideas or information that a passage of text will discuss

• A conclusion reached by finding and putting together clues and evidence from the text

Passage means...

• a novel or book

• a section of text

• A conclusion reached by finding and putting together clues and evidence from the text

• A sentence

An inferences is...

• A conclusion reached by finding and putting together clues and evidence from the text

• creating questions about the text that are not answered in the text

• A statement of ideas or information that a passage of text will discuss

• Readers relate what they read to personal experiences