- Make use of your existing knowledge of the world
- Predict while you read
- Read with a purpose
- Infer word meanings by using context
- Predict text structure and content from genre
- Analyze text structure: comparisons and contrasts, arguments
and counter arguments
- Identify narrative point of view
- Predict story direction
- Skim for the main idea of a passage
- Scan for specific information
- Analyze the text structure: find the main parts
- Recognize and analyze tone, style, and atmosphere
- Infer word meaning by using cognates
- Infer word meaning by using prefixes, suffixes, and word
families
- Infer word meaning by analyzing compound words
- Look at parts of speech
- Identify words by examining word formation
- Identify the subject of a sentence
- Identify personal and object referents
- Recognize transitional words and phrases
- Recognize story setting
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- Make use of visual clues
- Apply textual information to maps and charts
- Relate information from a text to maps or charts
- Recognize and analyze tone, style, and atmosphere
- Recognize chronological organization
- Identify time relationships
- Interpret categorized information
- Recognize argumentative organization
- Recognize descriptive texts
- Recognize the function of a text
- Recognize criticism
- Paraphrase sentences and paragraphs
- Summarize texts
- Distinguish between topic sentences and supporting sentences
in a paragraph
- Recognize and follow flashbacks
- Identify the main idea of an article
- Recognize relationships between different elements of a text
- Recognize the author's perspective
- Recognize the author's opinion and how it is expressed
- Identify narrative strategies
- Interpret figurative language
- Analyze the text structure: find the main parts
- Recognize and analyze tone, style, and atmosphere
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