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| PARAPHRASE | restate text or passage in other words, often to clarify meaning or show understanding |
| PATTERN BOOK | A book with predictable language structure and often written with predictable text; also known as predictable book |
| PERSONIFICATION | an object or abstract idea given human qualities or human form--EX. Flowers danced about the lawn |
| PHONICS | The relationship between letters and sounds fundamental in beginning reading |
| POINT OF VIEW | The way in which an author reveals characters, events and ideas in telling a story; the vantage point from which the story is told |
| PUBLIC DOCUMENT | a document that focuses on civic issues or matters of public policy at the community level and beyond |
| READING CRITICALLY | reading in which a questioning attitude, logical analysis and inference are used to judge the worth of text; evaluating relevancy and adequacy of what is read; the judgement of validity or worth of what is read, based on sound criteria |
| READING RATE | the speed at which a person reads, usually silently |
| RESEARCH | A systematic inquiry into a subject or problem in order to discover, verify, or revise relevant facts or principles having to do with that subject or problem |
| SATIRE | a literary tone used to ridicule or make fun of human vice or weakness--EX. ANIMAL FARM |
| SELF-MONITOR | Know when what one is reading or writing is not making sense; adjust strategies for comprehension |
| SEMANTICS | the study of meaning in language |
| SIMILE | a comparison of two unlike items in which a word of comparison--She eats like a bird |
