Active Reading Strategies

What are: visualizing; summarizing; clarifying; making connections; responding to ideas; asking questions?

• tools to identify important information

• ways to mark a text

• active reading strategies

• all of the above

When a reader writes, "It saddens me that we are destroying animal habitats", which strategy is s/he using?

• Clarifying

• Questioning

• Responding

• Summarizing

Stop and ask yourself questions to see if the text makes sense. 

• Clarify

• Evaluate

• Predict

• Summarize

Find ways to relate the text to yourself, other texts, and the world around you.

• Predict

• Visualize

• Clarify

• Connect

What are some tips for active reading?

• Some tips for active reading include: previewing the text before reading, highlighting or underlining important information, taking notes, asking questions while reading, and summarizing the main points after reading.

• Skim through the text quickly without paying attention to details

• Avoid taking any notes while reading

• Read the text in a noisy and distracting environment

notes added to the text while participating in active reading

• annotation

• thesis

• pathos

• explicit

What do you do while you are reading the story or article?

• Highlight Important Words or Ideas

• Take Notes

• See How Fast You Can Read It

• Answer the Questions

When you are reading a text you should

• Write down important notes

• Skim it

• Write down everything it says

• Stop every paragraph for a break

What do you do as you read a passage?

• Think about your reading by asking questions, highlighting important parts, and jotting quick notes out to the side.

• Write down every single thought you have.

• Outline every paragraph with your pencil.

• Highlight all of the words that look important.

The Questioning Strategy means you might ask, "What is the purpose of this section?"

• True

• False