Using context clues to understand unfamiliar words
Answering specific questions
Analyzing the text’s points
Critiquing the text
In order to comprehend the text, we apply many subskills simultaneously while we read
Applying effective Reading Strategies
Pre-Reading Strategies
Getting an Overview of the Text
Skimming
Looking for the main point of the reading and identifying the ideas that develop it
Scanning
Looking for specific information by rapidly moving your eyes along the page and tracking your finger along the lines of the text
Recalling background information
Connecting new knowledge and information to what you already know to increase comprehension
Using Context Clues
Words, phrases, and sentences that surround an unfamiliar word to help recognize the meaning of an unknown word
Context Clues
Synonyms
Antonyms
Context clues are words, phrases, and sentences that surround an unfamiliar word that can help you recognize the meaning of an unknown word because the text gives you information about it
Textual examples
Her story was fabricated. Every word of it was completely made up.
They found the request from their teacher preposterous and complained to their principal about the unreasonable demand.
Specific details in a text
Piscatorial creatures, such as flounder, salmon, and trout, live in the coldest parts of the ocean.
Celestial bodies, including the sun, moon, and stars, have fascinated man through the centuries. “Celestial” objects are those in the sky or heavens.
