What is an Equal-Status Relationship?
The relationships of words or sentences having equal associations between concepts.
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What are Content Words?
Words holding their meanings within a text or a particular passage.
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What is a Collaborative Listening-Viewing Guide?
A framework for study which is useful when information is acquired from a video, TV program, or web-based video clip.
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What is Assignment Mastery?
A reading strategy meant to give readers self-assessment techniques by asking specific questions during each of the various phases of reading (such as scanning, preparation for reading, recitation and review, and reading review).
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What are Arrays?
Graphic form representations of the relationships between topics, ideas, and details. Examples include semantic webs, mapping, and the herringbone technique.
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What are Think-Links?
A teaching strategy in which students write down keywords associated with a selection they have read, connect those words to specific examples, and then connect them to descriptive words thereby recreating important aspects of the selection. This process assists teachers in guiding their students to reflect on their reading.
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What is Text-Based Collaborative Learning?
Learning characterized by students working together with a partner or in small groups to better understand their reading of a text.
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What is Skimming?
Reading that happens at a fast pace and often used when trying to derive general ideas as to what a passage is about.
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What is Scanning?
Reading that happens at a fast pace and often used when searching for answers to specific questions.
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What is a ReQuest Procedure (or Reciprocal Questioning)?
A process used by individuals or within small groups that helps students set their reading objectives. The teacher guides the students as they continuously read a selection quietly until they can read independently. The teacher and students exchange questions after every sentence read until the point at which a general
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