Reading Strategies

What is it called when you check in with yourself to see if you are understanding what you are reading?

• activating background knowledge

• synthesizing

• monitoring your comprehension

• making inferences

What is called when you imagine what's going on in the text?

• asking questions

• visualizing

• making connections

• determining importance

What is it called when you sift through the information you read and decide what is essential and what's not?

• determine importance

• synthesize

• infer

• visualize

What is it called when you remember back to what you already know about a topic based on previewing the text?

• monitoring your comprehension

• synthesizing

• asking questions

• activating background knowledge

What is it called when you use evidence from the text and your own knowledge to come to a new understanding of the text?

• asking questions

• making inferences

• determining importance

• synthesizing

What is it called when you take information from multiple sources to better understand a topic?

• ask questions

• visualize

• synthesize

• activate background knowledge

Why did she do that? or What's the author's reasoning for including this? are both examples of this reading strategy.

• asking questions

• synthesizing

• monitoring comprehension

• visualizing

Rereading the text, asking for help, or taking notes are examples of _ _ _- _ _ strategies

You will use reading strategies ONLY in ELA class.

• True

• False

Select all that apply: Reading strategies can be used

• when reading a text book

• when listening to a song

• when reading a poem

• when watching a movie

• when reading a recipe