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UNRAAVEL. A Reading Strategy that Works! Want better grades? Want to be a better reader? Then UNRAAVEL is for you!. U : Underline the title What does it tell you? . What will this be about? . U . N Now, make a prediction about the passage based on the title, pictures, charts,
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UNRAAVEL A Reading Strategy that Works! Want better grades? Want to be a better reader? Then UNRAAVEL is for you!
U: Underline the title What does it tell you? What will this be about? U
N Now, make a prediction about the passage based on the title, pictures, charts, and graphs. This helps you to find and underline your answers. N
Run through and number your paragraphs. In the late 1960s, according to Larry Albritton, the checker-playing moved from the shelter to his barber shop at 17 S. Lake Avenue, where it was cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter. Albritton recalls men coming in every day just to play checkers, taking time out for lunch and then returning. Even some businessmen came in to play when things were slow. And they would "play by the numbers," meaning they'd pick a card that would spell out the first three moves, so the games would vary and the players "wouldn't get stuck in a rut." An article in the Avon Park Sun, dated Sept. 12, 1974, and headlined "471 Years of Checker Playing Experience," spotlights six of the regular checker players at Albritton's barber shop. Their average age at the time was 78 1/2. According to the article, "Their slightly askewed table is a piece of plywood (barely larger than the one-piece checkerboard) nailed to a rough-sawed four-by-four which in turn is nailed to a one-inch board. And a game is in hot progress almost any time one drops in at the shop." Albritton says the last game of checkers played in his shop took place "probably in the mid-1980s." He thinks the checker board they used is now on the table sitting in the remodeled checker shack. And a sign in front of a wooden box of checkers on display in the depot museum of the Historical Society of Avon Park reads, "These checkers were used on the checker board in Memorial Square on the Avon Park Mall." R
A Are you circling the important words in the question? A Are you underlining key words/vocabulary in the text? You learn a lot from the questions and the title. This gets you ready to read. Being a word detective helps you to answer the questions correctly. This gives you better grades. A and A
V Venture through the text and READ IT! Now you can read the passage. V
E Eliminate the wrong answers. Take out the trash and keep the treasure. E
L Let yourself answer the questions. Write the paragraph number, if the answer is found in one, and type of question ! Thoughtfully answer your questions. Be sure to write where you found your answers if they were in the text. L
Double-Double check your work. Did I answer all the questions? Don’t leave blanks! Do my answers make sense? Reread where I found them in the text. Is my name on my paper? Now you are done. Double Double Check!