Practical strategies for understanding and remembering what you read, such as skimming, context clues, and summarizing.
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- What is skimming?
- Quickly looking over a text to get a general sense of what it is about
- When is skimming most useful?
- When you need to get a quick overview of a text before reading it closely
- What is scanning?
- Quickly moving your eyes over a text to find a specific piece of information
- When is scanning most useful?
- When you are looking for a specific fact, name, date, or word in a text
- What is the main difference between skimming and scanning?
- Skimming looks for a general overview, while scanning looks for one specific detail
- What are context clues?
- Hints found in the words and sentences around an unfamiliar word that help explain its meaning
- How can you use context clues to find the meaning of a word?
- Look at the surrounding sentences for definitions, examples, or contrasts that hint at the meaning
- What is the main idea of a text?
- The most important point the author wants the reader to understand
- What are supporting details?
- Facts, examples, and explanations that give more information about the main idea
- How can you find the main idea of a paragraph?
- Look for the sentence that summarizes what the rest of the paragraph explains, often the topic sentence
- What does it mean to summarize a text?
- To restate the most important points of a text briefly, in your own words
- Why is summarizing a useful reading strategy?
- It helps you check your understanding and remember the key points of what you read
- What is making an inference while reading?
- Using clues from the text plus your own knowledge to figure out something the author did not state directly
- Give an example of making an inference.
- If a character grabs an umbrella before leaving, you can infer it is raining or about to rain
- What does it mean to predict while reading?
- To guess what will happen next in a text based on what you have read so far
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