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| connecting | The reader relates the content of a literary work to his or her own life. This may include similarities between characters in the story and people in real life. |
| evaluate | The process of judging the worth/value of someone or something. The reader may judge the story as a whole, a character, and or events. |
| fact | A statement that can be proven. |
| opinion | A personal belief or idea that can't be proven. |
| prediction | Making a guess about what may happen in the story based on prior knowledge, pictures, graphs, charts, and titles. |
| questioning | The process of raising questions while reading. This may include vocabulary that is not known to the reader. |
| summarizing | The process of telling the main ideas of a piece of writing briefly in your own words, omitting unimportant details. |
| clarifying | The process of pausing while reading to review previous events in a work and to check one's understanding. You may answer previous questions at this time. |
| visualizing | The process of forming a mental picture based on a written description. It may be of a character, event, or setting. Sometimes it is drawn out on paper. |
| chronological order | The order in which events happen in time. |
| previewing | Reading the title, pictures, graphs, charts, and questions at the end of a section, before you start reading the story or section. |
| connecting | In "Thank you M'am" people could relate to Roger and his desire for shoes. |
| evaluate | It was determined that "Victor" from the story "Seventh Grade" was acting foolishly to impress Teresa. |
| visualize | "Headlock" ("Thank you M'am") |
| prediction | Many made a ________ that Roger would be adopted by Mrs. Jones in "Thank you M'am". |
