Comprehension Strategies

Reading Comprehension is

• answering questions.

• reading with good expression and phrasing.

• listening to the teacher while he/she reads.

• understanding what we read.

An inference is...

• text evidence + what you know.

• retelling details from the text.

• making a guess without evidence.

• information written directly into the text.

To make an inference you take what you know, and what the author tells you to….

• come up with something the author doesn't tell you.
• know the wrong answer.
• not think about the story at all.
• stop reading.

Creating mental images of the settings, characters, and events in the text is called __________.

• Connecting

• Visualizing

• Clarifying

• Evaluating

If a reader is using the strategy of clarifying, he or she is 

• making mental images of what is happening in the text
• connecting to what he/she already knows
• stopping when he/she is confused to reread
• predicting what will happen next

A reader should stop and clarify when 

• she comes to an unknown word
• something doesn't make sense
• he can't remember what he just read
• all of the above

When a reader comes to a word he cannot pronounce, the FIRST thing he should do is

• ask the teacher
• break it into smaller chunks and/or look for known roots, prefixes, or suffixes
• look it up on dictionary.com
• ask another student

Things readers can do when CLARIFYING include all of the following EXCEPT

• read the text at a faster rate
• go back and reread part of the text
• adjust your reading rate to go slower
• use context clues to help figure out tricky words

To infer, a reader must...

• use their own words to retell what the text is mostly about.

• locate the figurative language that is in the text.

• figure out something that wasn't completely explained in the text.

• think about how to answer a multiple choice question.

Accessing Schema is...

• recalling information you ALREADY know about a topic.
• building knowledge about a topic you know nothing about.