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  2. Reading comprehension - Wikipedia

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    There are various reading strategies that help readers recognize what they are learning, which allows them to further understand themselves as readers. Also to understand what information they have comprehended. These strategies also activate reading strategies that good readers use when reading and understanding a text. [9]

  3. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    the floor above ground level (US: second floor) the floor at ground level (often, but not always, the same floor as a building's lobby) (UK: ground floor) fit (adj.) (of a person) attractive, sexy (slang) (of a person) in good physical condition suitable for some purpose (usu. followed by for or to) fix (v.)

  4. KWL table - Wikipedia

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    In this particular methodology the students are given the space to learn by constructing their own learning pace and their own style of understanding a given topic or idea. The KWL chart or table was developed within this methodology and is a form of instructional reading strategy that is used to guide students taking them through the idea and ...

  5. Missing letter effect - Wikipedia

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    Researchers Greenberg, Koriat and Vellutino give reasoning for these findings and write that the “missing letter effect arises very early in reading, by the first or second grade, and that its magnitude increases with grade level”. [19] [16] As reading skills and ability improve through developmental changes, younger readers gain a greater ...

  6. Reciprocal teaching - Wikipedia

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    Reciprocal teaching is an amalgamation of reading strategies that effective readers are thought to use. As stated by Pilonieta and Medina in their article "Reciprocal Teaching for the Primary Grades: We Can Do It, Too!", previous research conducted by Kincade and Beach (1996 ) indicates that proficient readers use specific comprehension strategies in their reading tasks, while poor readers do ...

  7. Readability - Wikipedia

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    Readability is the ease with which a reader can understand a written text.The concept exists in both natural language and programming languages though in different forms. In natural language, the readability of text depends on its content (the complexity of its vocabulary and syntax) and its presentation (such as typographic aspects that affect legibility, like font size, line height ...

  8. Converse (semantics) - Wikipedia

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    Converses can be understood as a pair of words where one word implies a relationship between two objects, while the other implies the existence of the same relationship when the objects are reversed. [3] Converses are sometimes referred to as complementary antonyms because an "either/or" relationship is present between them. One exists only ...

  9. English-language idioms - Wikipedia

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    An idiom is a common word or phrase with a figurative, non-literal meaning that is understood culturally and differs from what its composite words' denotations would suggest; i.e. the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words (although some idioms do retain their literal meanings – see the example "kick the bucket" below).