Reading Strategies All Genres

What does it mean to make predictions?

• to think

• to think about what may happen next based on prior knowledge.

• Ask when, where, why, how, who or other questions

When you make a connection you...

• try to understand the passage.

• see a picture in my head

• form a link between what is happening in the text.

Asking when, where, why, who, how and other questions to clarify the text are known as...

• drawing conclusions

• summarizing

• inferring

• questioning

When I visualize I ?

• summarize

• make connections

• see a picture in my head from the text.

• make a conclusion that is not stated in the text.

What is stamina?

• the ability to stay focused while reading

• guess what will happen.

• just pick anything

• make connections

The three types of connections are

• text to self, text to food, text to world

• text to world, text to self, text to media

• text to self, text to text, text to world

What is "close reading"?

• an inference

• reading texts closely to find specfic information

• predicting

• decoding

Relate what you are reading to something that you already know about a topic is called?

• questioning

• summarizing

• connecting

• visualizing

Stopping to check that you are understanding the text is called?

• a decoding strategy

• context clues

• inferencing

• monitoring comprehension

When you paint a picture in your mind as you read, its called:

• asking questions

• inferencing

• determining importance

• visualizing