Active Reading Strategies

When you draw an illustration about the text, you are...

• Connecting
• Visualizing
• Clarifying
• Evaluating

Stop and ask yourself questions to see if the text makes sense. 

• Clarify
• Evaluate
• Predict
• Summarize

Tags

CCSS.SL.6.1D

Find ways to relate the text to yourself, other texts, and the world around you.

• Predict

• Visualize

• Clarify

• Connect

Tags

CCSS.SL.6.1A

Stopping when you are confused to reread.

• Connect
• Clarify
• Evaluate
• Predict

Which one of the following is NOT a part of a summary?

• using your own words
• summary being shorter than the text
• only exact words from the text
• including main ideas only

If a reader looks up definitions to unknown words, s/he is using a strategy called 

• Connect
• Evaluate
• Predict
• Clarify

Purposeful engagement with the text is

• an alarm
• passive reading
• active reading
• none of the aboce

Making Connections: What type of connection is this: I read a book about how grocery stores get their food. It reminded me of the grocery trucks that drive by on the highway every day.

• text to self

• text to world

• text to text

Making Connections: What type of connection is this: I read a story about a boy who visited a magical land with witches and wizards. It reminded me of the book Harry Potter.

• text to self

• text to world

• text to text

Making Connections: What kind of connection is this: I read a book about how eggs are produced. It reminded me of my visit last summer to my grandparents' farm.

• text to self

• text to world

• text to text