Good Reading Strategies

What is comprehension?

• Reading for pleasure

• Reading for understanding

• Something Mrs. Smith forces me to do

• Useless stuff

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.5.3

CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RL.5.1

When an Independent Reader stumbles across an unknown word they should __________

• Ignore it

• Use a dictionary

• Skip over it

• Use context clues

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CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.L.5.4C

CCSS.RF.5.4C

When I stumble upon an underlined word that I do not know the meaning to, I should −

• Use context clues from the sentences around the word
• Come up with a definition that I think maybe fits in the sentence

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.RF.5.4C

Highlighting and annotating are techniques that can

• add to the reader's  understanding
• make it difficult to understand main ideas
• to express your artistic ability
• have no benefit at all

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.2

What are the three reasons an author writes a story/book/article?

• Persuade, Inform, and Explain
• Inform, Persuade, and Entertain

Tags

CCSS.W.3.1A

CCSS.W.3.2B

Monitoring comprehension means

• getting at least 80% on a reading quiz.

• only reading what you understand.

• using strategies to know when you do or do not understand what you read.

• writing a report about what you read.

Tags

CCSS.RF.5.4A

CCSS.RF.5.4C

For good readers, monitoring comprehension and using reading strategies are

• automatic.

• unnatural.

• not something that can be learned.

• difficult.

Tags

CCSS.RF.5.4A

Each of the following are strategies for monitoring comprehension while you read except

• questioning

• testing

• using text features

• annotating

Which of the following is not a strategy you can use to improve reading comprehension?

• Making questions out of the headings and subheadings.

• Thinking about something similar that you have heard about or experienced.

• Discussiong what you are reading with a peer.

• Take a test on the text.

Tags

CCSS.SL.5.1C

Good readers monitor their understanding of a text by doing all of the following except

• recognizing important details in the text.

• recognizing the use of figurative language.

• noting the illustrations to help make sense of the text.

• skipping anything that is difficult to understand.

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.7