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This step involves "hidden information." It is the information that is NOT stated in the text: Making inferences. This step helps guide your reading.  It involves who, what, when, where, why, and how: Generating questions. This step creates pictures in your mind of what you are reading: Visualizing. This step allows you to spark your reading by attempting to make a match to your life. : Making connections. This step is where you ask yourself, "Am I following this reading process?": Monitoring your reading. This step involves forming the main idea of the paragraph, text, or article.  It's the "Big Picture.": Determining importance. The search for answers and knowledge about the world around you: science. The science of living things and their behavior and interaction in their environment: life science. The grouping of things according to their similar traits or characteristics: classification

This step involves "hidden information." It is the information that is NOT stated in the text: Making inferences. This step helps guide your reading.  It involves who, what, when, where, why, and how: Generating questions. This step creates pictures in your mind of what you are reading: Visualizing. This step allows you to spark your reading by attempting to make a match to your life. : Making connections. This step is where you ask yourself, "Am I following this reading process?": Monitoring your reading. This step involves forming the main idea of the paragraph, text, or article.  It's the "Big Picture.": Determining importance. The search for answers and knowledge about the world around you: science. The science of living things and their behavior and interaction in their environment: life science. The grouping of things according to their similar traits or characteristics: classification

Floods can cause tremendous damage.  They can ruin houses, roads and buildings. Floods can take down trees and cause mudslides. It often leaves mud, sand and debris behind.  It can take months to clean up after a flood. What is the main idea: Floods can cause a lot of damage.. It was raining outside. Sue got out of bed and got dressed for school. Then, she ate breakfast and grabbed her backpack. Before Sue left the house, she probably ___________________: Picked up her umbrella.. My family went to the circus. We saw the funny clowns. We watched the lion act. We ate a lot of treats and popcorn. This story is about __________: going to the circus. Sam woke up and saw the sun shining in the sky. He packed his swimming suit, a towel, a beach ball, and his sandals in his bag. Then, he went to the kitchen and made a sack lunch.Sam is most likely going to ___________________: the beach. Which of the following is an example of a setting in a story:: the woods. The ______________ in a story are the people or animals: characters. How the characters in a story solve the problem is called the __________: solution. The setting of a story is _______________________: when and where a story takes place . Lucy was furious about her spelling grade. She kicked her desk and ran out of the classroom.What does furious mean: very upset

The wind blew through his hair as the boy watched the clouds roll in. As the waves grew bigger and bigger, he decided it was time to ride home. What is the boy doing: riding his bike. Lucy was furious about her spelling grade. She kicked her desk and ran out of the classroom.Why does the author use the word furious instead of mad in the example above: Lucy was really upset.. My family went to the circus. We saw the funny clowns. We watched the lion act. We ate a lot of treats and popcorn.  This story is about __________: going to the circus. It was raining outside. Sue got out of bed and got dressed for school. Then, she ate breakfast and grabbed her backpack.  Before Sue left the house, she probably ___________________: picked up her umbrella. Sam woke up and saw the sun shining in the sky. He packed his swimming suit, a towel, a beach ball, and his sandals in his bag. Then, he went to the kitchen and made a sack lunch.Sam is most likely going to ___________________: the beach. Mary was standing on the sidewalk. Then, she saw a butterfly. She got a net. She chased the butterfly: Mary will try to catch the butterfly in her net.. Amy opened the door to the bathroom. “What is that dripping sound? Why is the carpet wet and squishy all around the bathtub? The rest of the carpet is dry. Oh no!”What is the problem: The bathtub is overflowing.. What does Inference mean: Use clues and what you already know to come up with an idea. What information should you gather when you preview a text: A general idea of what the text is about. When's the best time to stop and reread a piece of text: When you come across something you don't understand. What is comprehension: Reading for understanding. Who does not require assistance with reading: Independent Reader. When an Independent Reader stumble across an unknown word they should __________: Use context clues. After reading, an Independent Reader can: Summarize the text

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Read the following passage:"The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs"Neither spoke, but lay silently listening to the ticking of the clock. A stair creaked, and a squeaky mouse scurried noisily through the wall. The darkness was oppressive, and after lying some time gathering up courage, he took the box of matches, and striking one, went downstairs for a candle. At the foot of the stairs, the match went out."Which type of imagery is found in the underlined lines: Sound imagery. Read the following poem:"The Eagle" by Alfred Lord Tennyson"He clasps the crag with crooked hands;Close to the sun in lonely landsRing'd with the azure world he standsThe wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;He watches from his mountain walls..."What type of imagery is found in the underlined lines: Touch imagery. the literal, dictionary definition of a word: denotation. The word scrawny, as in "Jason appeared scrawny," has a _________ connotation: negative. Referring to someone's house as a "shack" would have a __________ connotation: negative. Choose the word with the positive connotation: chat. What is the "tone" of a story: The author, narrator, or speaker's attitude toward a subject. The tone and mood of a text can be very different: true. The words that determine the tone in this passage are..."although I had tried hard and had followed the steps of the scientific method, my experiment didn't work. I dragged myself into class and slouched in my seat, not raising my hand: dragged, slouched. Situational Irony: When the opposite of what is expected is happen in a situation.. Verbal Irony: When the speaker says one thing but means another.. Dramatic irony: When the audience knows something the character does not.. When we know the identify of the superhero, but everyone else wonders who they are, thats...: Dramatic. Irony usually involves something that is : unexpected. Any instance in which the narrator or a character says one thing but means something else is : Verbal Irony. I'd like to visit that museum again as much as I'd like to gnaw off my own foot: Verbal irony. What sense does the following passage appeal to?"She slowly cleared her gravelly throat to make her presence known...": Sound. One bite of the sour lemon caused my lips to pucker.  Which sense does this describe: Taste

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Explore recycling and community involvement with this reading comprehension worksheet. Perfect for practicing citing text evidence and summarizing.