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Six-Way Paragraphs

• Understanding What You Read

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Six-Way Paragraphs use six types of questions to
help you strengthen the basic skills necessary
for reading factual material.
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Subject Matter

• This question looks easy, and often is.
• It can help you with the most important skill of
  all reading and learning concentration.
• Heres a hint for gaining concentration
• After reading the first few lines of something,
  ask yourself, What is the subject matter of this
  passage?

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Supporting Details

• Supporting details come in various forms
  examples, explanations, descriptions,
  definitions, comparison, contrasts, exceptions,
  analogies, similes, and metaphors.
• These details are used to back up or support the
  main idea.

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Conclusion

• The conclusion can be stated or implied.
• While reading you must think, Where is the
  writer leading me? Whats the conclusion?
• Like a detective you must try to guess the
  conclusion, changing the guess as you get more
  and more information.

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Clarifying Devices

• These are words, phrases, and techniques that a
  writer uses to make main ideas, sub-ideas, and
  supporting details clear and interesting.
• Examples include
• similes and metaphors,
• transitional or signal words, and
• organizational patterns.

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Vocabulary in Context

• You will become a better reader if you learn the
  exact meanings and different shades of meaning of
  the words that are already familiar to you.

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Main Idea

• The main idea tells who or what the subject of
  the passage is. It also answers the question
  does what? or is what?
• The too narrow statement is in line with the
  main idea, but expresses only part of it.
• The too broad statement is in line with the main
  idea, but is too general in scope.

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