Reading Strategies

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Analyze

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Look closely and think about what you read.

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Annotate

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to write your own thoughts in a text

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Summarize

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A short statement that gives the main ideas of a story.

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Synthesis

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Bringing ideas together for new understanding.

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Visualize

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Picture sensory details in your mind: sight, sound, touch, taste, smell.

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Structure

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How something is set up.

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Inference: Use what you read and know to deduce what the author doesn't state directly.

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Use what you read and already know to figure out what the author does not tell you directly.

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Literary devices

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Help a writer tell a story or make a point.

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substantiate

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to provide evidence to support or prove the truth