During your reading, you can follow these few steps to build meaning from the text. Here is what you should do:
Annotating a text is the action of adding extra information or details as you are reading, or identifying important passages in a text.
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Identify important passages
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Underline unfamiliar words and look up their meaning
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Write key questions or thoughts in the margins or in your notebook
You check your understanding by posing a series of actions to make sure you understand what you have read so far. This can be done at any moment while reading.
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Summarize what you’ve read.
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Retell the story in your own words.
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Ask yourself comprehension questions (who? what? where? when? why?).
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Go back and read again.
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Seek help from a parent, a teacher or a classmate.
You know that figurative language is used when the author writes a phrase that creates a specific image in your head. Figurative language helps you understand the author’s idea better.
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Fun descriptive words are used to represent elements of the story.
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These words or phrases create images in your head or a scene that makes you understand a situation better.
