rnw lesson 1&2

• Reading - cognitive process that involves decoding symbols to arrive at a meaning
• Word Recognition - identifying words in print
• Fluency - identifying words and making meaning
• Comprehension - constructing an understanding
• Connected Discourse - connection between the reader and the text
• There must be connection between the author, reader, and the text
• Planning (Pre-Reading) - activate background knowledge, preview the text, and develop a purpose for reading
• Planning (Pre-Reading) - reader could look at the title of the selection and list down all the information
• Planning (Pre-Reading) - studying the illustrations, photos and graphics
• Monitoring (During Reading) - grasp meaning of the reading material by connecting it to his schema
• Monitoring (During Reading) - reader makes predictions
• Monitoring (During Reading) - use context clues
• Evaluating (Post Reading) - establish a connection between what they know and what they learned
• Evaluating (Post Reading) - retell a story, discuss the elements of the story, answer questions, and compare it to another text
• Skimming - look for main or general ideas in a text, without going into detailed and exhaustive reading
• Scanning - quickly locate specific information in a text
• author of scent of apples

  • Bienvenido Santos
• "reading makes a full man" - francis bacon
• Context - setting of the word
• Contextual Clues - words, phrases, and sentences would help decipher the meaning of difficult words
• Synonyms - words having the same meaning (by dashes, commas, parentheses, restatement
• Antonyms - words that have opposite meaning
• Examples - list of illustrations
• Comparisons - identifying the similarities and differences
• Sense of Sentences - considers the meaning, nature or significance of the whole sentence
• Derivation or Structural Analysis - break words down into their basic parts
• Root Word - base form of a word
• Prefix - letters which we add to the beginning of a word
• Suffix - added at the end of a word