Strategies

Making pictures in your mind as you read to help you "see" what you are reading.

• Determining what's important

• Visualizing

• Making predictions

• Making an inference

What is it called when you relate what you are reading to the world, yourself or other texts?

• Making Predictions

• Making Connections

• Asking Questions

• Visualizing

What strategy involves asking good questions to keep us more mentally engaged with what we read?

• Visualizing

• Connecting

• Inferring

• Questioning

What is it called when you make an educated guess about what will happen next in the text?

• Summarizing and Synthesizing

• Making Predictions

• Asking Questions

• Making Connections

One technique we can practice to help us with connecting is to

• Look up words we are unsure of

• Make an assumption about what we read

• Connect what we read to our current lives

• Draw out what we picture

Continually ___________ the text will help you stay alert and interested in what you are reading. 

• Summarizing

• Questioning

• Clarifying

• Evaluating

Using clues around a "tricky" word to figure out what it means is called?

• an inference

• using context clues

• predicting

• decoding

What is the strategy called when you break down a complex sentence to understand its meaning?

• A) Summarizing

• B) Analyzing

• C) Visualizing

• D) Predicting

Which strategy involves identifying the main idea of a paragraph?

• A) Inferring

• B) Summarizing

• C) Questioning

• D) Visualizing

What is the term for the strategy of using synonyms to understand unfamiliar words?

• A) Contextualizing

• B) Paraphrasing

• C) Synonymizing

• D) Decoding