1st Monthly Exam Flashcards
The reason why we read is for us to _________, whether for academic , personal, or professional purposes.
gain and share information and ideas
Applying Effective Reading Strategies
- Previewing
- Skimming
- Scanning
Utterance, speech, talk, discussion, conversation
Discourse
Strategies to become better readers (7)
- Identifying the author’s purpose
- Grasping the main ideas of the text
- Locating important details
- Using context clues to understand unfamiliar words
- Answering specific questions
- Analyzing the text’s points
- Critiquing the text
Group of ideas put together to make a point or central idea.
Text
A cognitive process of decoding symbols in order to derive meaning from a text.
Reading
Techniques in Selecting and Organizing Information in Reading and Writing
Graphic Organizers-
Outlining
A large unit of written language.
Text
Looking at the readily visible parts of the text.
Previewing
Looking for specific information
Scanning
It is actually connected to Discourse.
Text
Ideas are not connected or do not have a particular structure.
Analysis
Just read and until you locate the details you are searching for.
Scanning
Common Types of Context Clues (5)
- Synonyms
- Antonyms
- Examples
- Definitions
- Situations
In discourse ideas should be relevant to one another.
Analysis
Used when the text has words or phrases that are similar in meaning to the unknown word.
Synonyms
Opposed to what discourse is, a text has structure which requires the ideas.
Analysis
Alex is no stranger to poverty is an example of?
Text
Patterns of Development (8)
Narration Description Definition Exemplification/classification Comparison and contrast Cause and effect Problem-solution Persuasion
Words or phrases , and sentences that surround an unfamiliar word.
Context Clues
Look for the main point in reading.
Skimming
Physically moving your eyes quickly along lines of text.
Scanning
- Alphanumeric Format
* Decimal Format
Outlining
Help in recognizing the meaning of an unknown word.
Context Clues
Use to tell a story on focus on a set of related events
Narration
When you see words like although, but, instead, despite , in contrast, unlike, even though, in the contrary, conversely, these usually precede _____. Those are used to show contrasting ides.
Antonyms
Focuses on the important information in the text.
Previewing
You must recognize the hierarchy of the ideas you will arrange in outline format.
Outlining
Physically moving your eyes rapidly along the page and tracing your finger along the lines of the text to speed up reading.
Skimming
Venn Diagram, Flow Chart are Fishbone Diagram an example of?
Graphic Organizers-
Quickly going through beginning and concluding sentences of paragraphs (usually talk about the topic of the sentence)
Skimming
Increases your vocabulary
Context Clues
Reading until you locate the details you are searching for.
Scanning
“ A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies…
The man who never reads lives only one.” by:?
George R.R. Martin
A useful strategy to apply to poem.
Scanning
Helps in terms of how the words was used in a sentence and discover approximate definition.
Context Clues
Having idea of the details you are looking for.
Scanning
Identify the ideas that develop it.
Skimming
Useful in searching for answers.
Scanning
Allows you to read more frequently
Context Clues
Familiarizes with the content of the selection
Previewing
Used to arrange ideas to achieve the writer’s purpose in writing text
Patterns of Development
The instructions of your teacher or questions about the text may help you in knowing what to scan for.
Scanning
A word that reveals the opposite meaning in relation to the unknown word.
Antonyms
Structures writers to organize their ideas.
Patterns of Development
Expressed why something happened or what resulted from a particular event that happened.
Cause and effect pattern organizer or Fishbone Diagram
- Show the similarities and differences of the two or more subjects.
- Put the similarites of the subjects in the overlapping area, and the distinctive qualities or differences in the non overlapping areas.
Comparison and contrast pattern organizer or Venn Diagram
Effective for family tree
Showing organization or Flow Chart
