YEAR 8 LITERACY - Comprehension Strategies

Literacy is

• more than the ability to read and write

• is visual, digital and written form

• a only

• both a and b

Comprehension is understanding text.

• True

• False

Comprehension is the ability to  $\ldots$  something.

The 4Hs include (click on the ones that are part of the 4Hs comprehension strategy):

• Here

• Hidden

• Hand

• Heart

I can find the answer to a question by accessing my prior knowledge. This is known as:

• Hidden

• Heart

• Here

• Head

Choose the strategies that make part of the Super Six Comprehension Strategies.

• Making Connections

• Predicting

• Questioning

• Monitoring

• All of the above

"This story reminds me of a vacation that I took to the ocean, just like the main character.”

Choose the type of connection the above is referring to?

• Text to Text

• Text to Self

• Text to World

I saw on the news about how water pollution was affecting marine animals, and in this book I am learning about why pollution can make a marine animal sick.

Which connection is this referring to?

• Text to text

• Text to self

• Text to world

How do we make predictions?

Readers ______________ the information in the text to gain a quick overview of the text.

• skim

• skip

• scan

• scope

When and where should we skim texts?

• When a text is very long

• When time is limited

• When looking for something specific in a larger text

• When you hate reading