Tips for Reading Comprehension

Which of these is the 'Visualising' effective reading strategy?

• Add life to your reading by creating pictures in your head. Use all your senses.

• Reading between the lines to think more deeply about meaning.

• Making connections with the things you have read.

• Using a dictionary to find meanings for unknown words.

What types of connections can you make with a text?

• Text to self

• Text to the wider world

• Text to other texts

• Text to my friends

A good 'detextive' asks these...

Which of these are 'fix up' strategies?

• Re - reading

• Ask questions

• Walk away

• Find out what unknown words mean.

• Just guess

Reading 'between the lines' is called?

• Reading

• Influencing

• Inferencing

• Making connections

The ' important ideas' in a text are found by...

• finding the key information in a text.

• Thinking about why you are reading a text. (Your purpose)

• Looking at the topic sentences of the paragraphs

• Looking at the pictures and heading in a text.

When we have 'synthesized' the information in a text we...

• Can summarise the big ideas.

• Can join lots of information together.

• Forget about it.

• Can form our own opinions on the text.

Which Effective Reading Strategy gets us to think about what ideas in the story similar to other stories, people and events?

• Visualising

• Asking Questions

• Making Connections

• Determining important ideas

When should you ask questions about what you are reading?

• Before

• During

• After

What do the 5W's and H stand for?

• Who

  What

  Why

  When

  Wear

  Hue

• Who

  What

  When

  Where

  Why

  How

• Hoo

  Wot

  Wen

  Were

  Y

  Ow