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Reading Strategies and

Skills
Unit 5 Week 5
Comprehension Strategy:
Summarize
- When you read expository text about
science, you may come across complex
concepts. One way to check for your
understanding and to clarify a difficult text is
to summarize.
-Active readers have ongoing mental
conversations as they negotiate difficult text.
They stop periodically to check their
understanding of the reading.
-You should briefly rethink ideas in a section
of a text, and restate state key information in
your own words.

Genre: Expository Text

The following are key characteristics of
expository text:
-It explains a topic. It may explain a
scientific process that developed over
time.
-It presents factual details. it often
includes photographs, diagrams,
maps, headings, sidebars, and graphs
to provide visual representations of
information.
-Sidebars - provide a way to add
related information, such as an
opinion, to the text.
-Graphs - graphs of numerical data
often show how something has

Vocabulary Strategy:
Connotation and Denotation
- Denotation is the most common

dictionary meaning. Connotation

is the understood or implied
meaning.
- It has have a positive or negative
connotation/denotation depending
on the word.
-For extra practice, refer to Practice
Workbook page 247. Also refer to The RWW
book page 373.

Comprehension Skill: Authors Point

of View
-Authors point of view is his or her attitude or

perspective about the subject matter of the text.

Authors of an expository text primarily present facts
about a topic, but may also express a point of view.
-To determine the authors point of view, you should
look for words the author uses to convey about the
topic. Why might the author use one word over a
synonym that means almost the same thing? What
perspective might that word convey?
-To help identify the authors point of view, ask
yourself: DO the words the author uses in the text
have a neutral, positive, or negative connotation?
-For extra practice, refer to Practice Workbook pages

Vocabulary Menu Homework

application catastrophic
computations
deployed elevating
magnetic
obsolete
subsequently
To get an A, complete 3 of the following,
To get a B, complete 2 of the following;
To get a C, complete 1 of the following;
To get a F, complete 0 of the following
1. Write a sentence using each of the
vocabulary words.
2. Make a word search puzzle using all of
the vocabulary words (list the words at
the bottom).
3. Define all the words.
4. Make a crossword puzzle using all of
the vocabulary words (with clues for
each word).
5. Create some type of review game with
the vocabulary words.
6. Create a vocabulary quiz (and answer
key) with the vocabulary words.
7. Create vocabulary flashcards.
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