Interpreting
If the author does not give information prescely, you must interpret the information into understandable words

Reading
One way to clarify meaning is to first read the content and then look at the overall meaning to understand.

Note Taking
While reading or listening, the student takes notes on facts of some importance for refrence later.

Summarizing
You skim over the content you are trying to read and summarize the information so that the important facts remain.

Outlining
The student while reading takes notes on a special event which holds information, and then goes back and re-reads the source.

Language Arts/Reading

Standard 1: The student uses the
reading process effectively (LA.A.1.3).

Objective 4: Uses strategies to clarify
meaning, such as rereading, note taking, summarizing, outlining, and writing a grade level-appropriate report.

Amusement Park Activity

Find a map of an amusment
park and skim through it
looking for places of interest.

Did You Know?

A bookworm is an insectthat
likes to eat the pagesof books.
They are usually moth or
beetle larvae.

Vocabulary

Predictions - An act of predicting.

Content - The amount of specified
material contained.

Purpose - Something set up as an
object or end to be attained

Organization - The act or process
of organizing or of being organized.

Links

Great site that includes tips
and tricks to betterunderstand
the writing process.