Our Reading Strategies

The people in a story are called....

• plot

• setting

• characters

• author's purpose

Where the story takes place is called the...

• plot

• setting

• characters

• author's purpose

What strategy can you use to help you remember what you read?

• read really fast

• ask yourself questions

• predict what might happen next

• create images in your mind

When you visualize you...

• draw a picture on paper

• form a picture in your mind

• paint a picture on paper

• you do nothing

what are the 5 wh question words?

• whale, wheel, white, whole, whip

• which, where, whip, white, wheel

• who, what, when, where, why

When you summarize you...

• pick all the information

• pick only the important information

• pick the funniest information

• pick the ending

When you come to a hard word you can...

• look at the picture for clues

• look for small words in the word

• pick a word that starts with the same letter

• say the first word that pops into your mind

What strategy would you use to read this word - grape

• two vowels go walking

• small word in a word

• bossy e

• y at the end of the word says i or e

Reading is...

• talking

• singing

• looking

• thinking

When you read you should...

• stop and think about what you are reading.

• ask yourself questions about the book.

• read as fast as you can.

• look at the pictures only.