comprehension strategies

Comprehension Strategies

Reading Requires Thinking!

Open Ended

Why is reading important?

Multiple Choice

What do you think the word "Comprehension" means?

• Comparing

• Understanding

• Deciding

• Trying

Strategy

What is a strategy? 

Open Ended

When have you used a strategy to help you do something?

Reading Comprehension Strategies will help you understand what you read. 

Let's see if you can figure out what they are!

Fill in the Blanks

and answering questions.

Multiple Choice

______________ , or figuring out just the most important things that you read.

• Guessing

• Reading

• Watching

• Summarizing

Fill in the Blanks

, or picturing the story in your mind.

Multiple Choice

Using text evidence and schema to make an ____________ .

• inference

• idea

• igloo

• issue

Fill in the Blanks

Making text-to-self or text-to-text

.

Multiple Choice

Thinking about what might happen next and making a _________.

• plan

• project

• prediction

• story

Poll

How many of these strategies have you used before when you're reading?

• 0

• 1-2

• 3-4

• 5-6

So....what's the point? Why use reading strategies?

• We will think about what we're reading more when we use these strategies.

• If we're thinking about what we're reading, we're going to understand what we read better!

• Just knowing the strategies won't make you a better reader. You have to actually USE THEM! 

• You will probably have to think about using strategies purposefully at first, but eventually, you might not even realize you're using them!