Reading Strategies & All Short Stories

What is Clarifying?

• From time to time, stop and review your understanding of what you read.

• Summarize

• Identify the main idea

• Make conclusions

• All of the above

When you make connections, you...

• Make conclusions

• Make an opinion

• Think of similarities between what is being described in the book and what you have experienced, heard, or read in the past

• Make an inference

• Make a prediction

To evaluate is to...

• Make a conclusion

• Make an opinion

• Make an inference

• Make a connection

Some example of making connections are:

• Text to Text

• Text to World

• Text to Self

• All of the above

Before you begin to read you might make ...

• an opinion

• an inference

• a prediction

• a conclusion

What was the short story "The All-American SLURP" about?

• A Chinese immigrant girl who was learning the American culture.

• A Japanese immigrant girl who was learning the American culture.

At the end of the short story "SLURP," the narrator learned that ...

• We all do the best we can when we are learning new customs.

• It's okay to have different cultures.

• All Americans slurp.

• All of the above.

In the short story "Eleven," Rachel is ...

• a student that gets very sick in school.

• a student that gets very embarrassed in school by her teacher.

By the end of the short story "Eleven," we learn a new way of thinking about ...

• cats

• dogs

• food

• birthdays

In the short story "The Sand Castle" the future is ...

• scary

• beautiful