Reading Strategies

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What is summarizing?

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Creating a concise statement of the most important parts of a passage.

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What are fiction texts?

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Made up stories.

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What is a POST reading strategy?

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A strategy used after reading, such as summarizing.

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What does setting a purpose for reading mean?

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Identifying a reason for reading the text.

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What are some purposes for reading?

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To learn, to solve problems, to answer questions, and more.

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What is synthesizing in reading?

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Combining different ideas from a text to form a new understanding.

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What does evaluating a text involve?

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Judging the quality or significance of the text.

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What is predicting in reading?

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Making an educated guess about what will happen next in the text.

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What does inferring mean?

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Drawing conclusions based on evidence from the text.

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What is previewing a text?

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Looking over the text before reading to get an idea of its content.