READING & WRITING

Why recalling Prior Knowledge is important?

- Prior knowledge has long been considered the most important factor influencing learning and student achievement. - The amount and quality of prior knowledge positively influence both knowledge acquisition and the capacity to apply higher-order cognitive problem-solving skills.

SCHEMA

- are created based on experiences and are stored in memory for future use.

POSITIVE CANNOTATION

- are generally favorable associations toward a word.

NEUTRAL CANNOTATION

- bring up impartial associations towards a word

DENOTATION

- is a basic, precise, literal meaning of the word that can be found in the dictionary.

CANNOTATION

- is the positive, negative or neutral feelings, attitudes, ideas or associations with a word.

SKIMMING EFFECTIVELY

- means physically moving your eyes rapidly along the page and tracing your finger along the lines of the text to speed up your reading.

RECALLING BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE

- means that as you read, you make sense of the text by seeing how it fits with what you already know called Schema.

SKIMMING

- means you look for the main points of the reading and identify ideas that develop it. - another quick learning process. -

NEGATIVE CANNOTATION-

- tend to have unfavorable feelings or ideas about the word.

SCANNING

- the reader is looking for specific information. ​

Ways of describing the meaning of a word:

a. Denotation b. Cannotation

TYPES of SCHEMAS

a. Person Schemas b. Social Schemas c. Self Schemas d. Event Schemas

Different Types of Cannotation

a. Positive b. Negative c. Neutral

EXAMPLES OF SKIMMING:

a. To see what is in the news on a website or on a paper b. To look through a text to decide whether you want to read it or not c. To look through the television guide/program schedule to plan your evening d. To see through a catalog to choose an offer e. To go through the options after searching something on Google