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Summarizing

Summarizing enables a reader to determine what is most important to remember once the reading is completed. Many things we read have only one or two bid ideas, ...

Visualization

Visualizing. Studies have shown that students who visualize while reading have better recall than those who do not (Pressley, 1977).

Questioning

Questioning. Asking and answering questions about text is another strategy that helps students focus on the meaning of text. Teachers can help by modeling ...

Teaching

Teaching is the practice implemented by a teacher aimed at transmitting skills to a learner, a student, or any other audience in the context of an educational institution. Teaching is closely related to learning, the student's activity of appropriating this knowledge.

Fluency

Fluency refers to continuity, smoothness, rate, and effort in speech production. It is also used to characterize language production, language ability or language proficiency.

Image scanner

An image scanner—often abbreviated to just scanner—is a device that optically scans images, printed text, handwriting or an object and converts it to a digital image. Commonly used in offices are variations of the desktop flatbed scanner where the document is placed on a glass window for scanning.

Skimming

Skimming involves running your eye very quickly over large chunks of text. It is different from previewing because skimming involves the paragraph text.

Inference

Inferences are steps in reasoning, moving from premises to logical consequences; etymologically, the word infers means to "carry forward". Inference is theoretically traditionally divided into deduction and induction, a distinction that in Europe dates at least to Aristotle.