comprehension Strategies

Front

Predictions

Back

To make a good guess of what we will think will happen

Front

Inferences

Back

To use information from the text and what we already know to figure out what the author does not directly say

Front

Summarizing

Back

give a brief statement of the main points of a story

Front

Making Connections

Back

Self to Text: Connecting the text to your life.

Text to Text: Connecting the text to another text.

Text to World: Connecting the text to an event in the world.

Front

Fact

Back

A true statement you can prove

Key Words

Dates

Historical

Events

Front

Opinion

Back

Someone's feeling or idea about something.

Key Words

prefer

think

feel

believe