Reading Section Strategies Review

What are the concepts we review this week during class?

The _______ is the what of the passage.

The purpose is the _______ of a passage.

Explicit Details:

You should play the detective and note the explicit details like the place, time, people involved, and location of events.

You need to memorize the details of the story as you read.

The most explicit details are _________, or definite truths that can be backed up by specific words in the reading.

Besides the facts, or details in the story, we should also pay attention to how that story unfolds, or how it ____________.

There are two different kinds of development: (pick 2 from the choices)

Some signal words from the sequence of events clarify the order in which they took place. Some examples are:

"During," "as," or "while" are examples of signal phrases that signal the event is taking place at the same time as another.

Examples of numerical signal words are all EXCEPT:

Non-numerical chronological signal words are "then," "while," _______ or "during"

Cause-Effect relationship signal phrases include:

You always need to know a dictionary definition of vocabulary in a passage.

Most sentences contain ________ you can use to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words.

________ is a word that has the same meaning as another word.

After yesterday's lesson, we know lugubrious means _________

From the sample question:

My friend Jason, a guitarist, always plays lugubrious, mournful folk songs. Although he is an excellent musician, I wish he occasionally would play more upbeat tunes with happier lyrics.

Implied Ideas and Applications:

As a good reader, you should follow clues left by the writer to ___________ about the information in the passage.

We constantly draw conclusions daily when we see ads.

Drawing a ___________ that is, a decision or judgment about people of events.

Your conclusion about a passage doesn't have to be supported by the passage.