Noah Weinburger

9/29/2015

Strategies for reading

Becoming an active reader.

Predict
Try to figure out what happens next and how the selection might end.

Visualize
Visualize characters, events and setting to help you understand what's
happening.
When you read nonfiction, pay attention to the images that form.

Connect
Connect personally with what you're reading,think of similarities between the
descriptions in the selection.

Question
Question what happens while you read. searching for reasons behind events
and charters feeling can help you feel can closer to what you reading.

Clarify
Stop occasionally to review what you understand, and expect to have your
understanding change and develop as you read on.

Reread and use resources to help you clarify your understanding also watch
for answers.

Evaluate
Form opinions about what you read both while reading and after youve
finished develop your own ideas about characters and events.

Predict

Vizualize

Connect

Question

Clarify

Evaluate

Infinitive
participle
lie (to rest)

lay (to put)

lying

laying
lay

Present participle

Past

Past

laid
(have) lain

(have) laid

Exercise 12

lie
layed
lied
lain
lying
laid
lying
laid
lay
lie

Exercise 13
lay
laying
laid
lay

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lying
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lay

Noah Weinburger
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10-7Figurative Language

Denotation: is the dictionary

meaning of a word

Connotation: is a second meaning

(Example) Home is a place where you live security, love.

Imagery: are words that created visual or sensory images in the reader's
mind.

Alliteration: that is the repetition of the same beginning sound in several

words in a poem like this tongue twister

Assonance: Go low and Slow Below the ridge youll see a tree beside the
Bridge.

Symbol::something that means more than what it is. Example American flag
(freedom)

Hyperbole: and overstatement or exaggeration Meant two place.

Allusion: (Magic trick) the goat-footed balloonman whistles far and wee.

Simile: a comparison between two things using words like or as

(Example) your beautiful green eyes are as green as green emerls

Metaphor: a comparison between two things without using the words like or
as.
(Example) your eyes are as green as emeralds

Onomatopoeia- the use of words that sound like what they mean- bzzz-waff

(Example) about the day:

Tanya waited patiently in line for her ice-cream. The day was very hot and
she had run from the house as soon as she heard the familiar tune of the icecream van. The soles of her feet were burning but the smooth texture of the
vanilla ice-cream was like a cooling breeze, making the wait worthwhile.