Reading Strategies

When you use evidence to make a guess, you are using the reading strategy called ____.

• Connect

• Visualize

• Clarify

• Infer/Predict

When using this Reading Strategy, you the reader are creating mental images of the settings, characters, and events in the text.

• Questioning

• Identifying

• Visualizing

• Evaluating

When you determine what you think will happen next in the text you __________. 

• Visualize

• Predict

• Connect

• Clarify

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

• Connect

• Visualize

• Clarify

• Evaluate

What are the most important things to do as you read?

• visualize and connect; predict and preview

• ask questions about the text and summarize

• examine text features and text structures

• all of the above

What strategies would you use for this text?

• identify author's purpose, box in plot elements, annotate paragraphs, prove all answers

• identify author's purpose, annotate paragraphs, prove all answers

On the reading section, I should...

• Just start reading and skim through the boring parts

• Don't read the whole passage, just go question by question

• Read and annotate the passage

Think about what you already know about the text. Find ways to relate the text to yourself, other texts, and the world around you. 

• Predict

• Visualize

• Clarify

• Connect

When I come across a word I don't know, I should...

• just keep reading and not worry about what the word means

• use the context clues in the text to help me figure out what the word means

• skip over the word and forget about it

• stop reading the book 

What does it mean to visualize as you read?

• Make a drawing

• See what's happening in your mind

• watch the movie version

• read aloud