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◉ comprehension strategies. Answer: specific techniques that
promote reading comprehension such as predicting and gaining
word meanings from context
◉ context. Answer: discourse that surrounds a language unit and
helps to determine its interpretation; the social or cultural situation
situation in which a spoken or written message occurs
◉ schema. Answer: an internal representation of the world; how the
mind categorizes incoming stimuli
◉ schemata. Answer: plural of schema; more than one cognitive
structure stored in memory
◉ metacognition. Answer: awareness and knowledge of one's
mental processes such that one can monitor, regulate, and direct
them to a desired end; thinking about one's thinking
, ◉ brainstorming. Answer: coming up with as many solutions to a
problem as possible in a short period of time with no censoring of
ideas
◉ readability. Answer: the ease with which words, phrases or blocks
of text can be read
◉ connotative meaning. Answer: the meaning suggested by the
associations or emotions triggered by a word or phrase; affective
meaning;emotive meaning
◉ denotative meaning. Answer: the literal or dictionary meaning of a
word or phrase; referential meaning; cognitive meaning
◉ figurative language. Answer: Writing or speech that is used to
create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between
dissimilar things, [examples are metaphor, simile, and
personification.
◉ expository text. Answer: text written to explain and convey
information, informational writing
◉ nonfiction. Answer: a type of literature that tells about real-life
people, places, events, things, etc.