comprehension strategies

Comprehension Strategies

Reading Requires Thinking!

Open Ended

Why is reading important?

Multiple Choice

What do you think the word "Comprehension" means?

• Comparing

• Understanding

• Deciding

• Trying

Strategy

What is a strategy? 

Open Ended

When have you used a strategy to help you do something?

Reading Comprehension Strategies will help you understand what you read. 

Let's see if you can figure out what they are!

Fill in the Blank

________ and answering questions.

Multiple Choice

______________ , or figuring out just the most important things that you read.

• Guessing

• Reading

• Watching

• Summarizing

Fill in the Blank

______, or picturing the story in your mind.

Multiple Choice

Using text evidence and schema to make an ____________ .

• inference

• idea

• igloo

• issue

Fill in the Blank

Making text-to-self or text-to-text _________ .

Multiple Choice

Thinking about what might happen next and making a _________.

• plan

• project

• prediction

• story

Poll

How many of these strategies have you used before when you're reading?

• 0

• 1-2

• 3-4

• 5-6

So....what's the point? Why use reading strategies?

• We will think about what we're reading more when we use these strategies.

• If we're thinking about what we're reading, we're going to understand what we read better!

• Just knowing the strategies won't make you a better reader. You have to actually USE THEM! 

• You will probably have to think about using strategies purposefully at first, but eventually, you might not even realize you're using them!