Comprehension and Response Unit Review

Comprehension and Response Unit 2 Review

by Vanda Moulton

Multiple Choice

How does Reading with a purpose (having a reason to read) help you?

Before starting any reading, it is important to have a purpose. Why are you reading? Maybe it’s to find the main idea of a short story or to find out how a character saves their problem.   In any case the purpose is what you, as the reader, hope to accomplish by the end of the reading. Without a purpose, you can easily lose your train of thought and get to the end of a reading without ever knowing what you’ve even read.

• It helps you to find the answer or info quickly. You have a goal in mind of what you hope to accomplish with the reading. 

• You do not need a purpose for reading. 

• Reading iw thinking.

• You can find the main idea. 

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When do you ask questions in reading?

• Before, during and after the reading

• Only before the reading

• Only after the reading

• Only during the reading

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What is the reason we ask ourselves questions as a we read?

1.Preview cover/title and/or read summary provided or the first few lines/pages to make a prediction about what you will be reading about.

2. Reread, check visuals on the page, think about what I already know, slow down or speed up my rate

• Readers ask questions to monitor and clarify their understanding.

• Readers do not need to ask questions.

Multiple Choice

What do you do when you annotate?

Summarize key points in your own words.

Circle key concepts and phrases.

Write brief comments and questions in the margins.

Use abbreviations and symbols.

Highlight/underline.

Use comment and highlight features built into pdfs, online/digital textbooks, or other apps and browser add-ons.

• You don't have to annotate

• You just need to annotate the unfamiliar words.

• Annotating involves using multiple strategies such as summarizing, circling key details, writing comments and questions on the margins of your text.

Open Ended

What is a prediction and what is its purpose?

A prediction is a statement about what someone thinks will happen in the future. People make predictions all the time. Some are very serious and are based on scientific calculations, but many are just guesses. You also use textual evidence to make

Open Ended

Why is it important to check if your predictions are correct or incorrect? Making predictions helps set the stage for students to monitor their own comprehension. Making predictions naturally encourages the reader to want to continue reading in order to find out if their predictions were correct or not.

Multiple Choice

How would texts be different if author's did not include tools for readers to make mental images?

Visualizing is especially valuable when it is applied to narrative texts. In reading narratives, readers often can develop a clear understanding of what is happening by visualizing the setting, characters, or actions in the plot. However, visualizing can also be applied to the reading of expository texts, with readers visualizing steps in a process or stages in an event or creating an image to help them remember some abstract concept or important name

• Visualizing helps readers to develop a clear understanding of what is happening in the fiction and in better understanding the steps of a process in expository. 

• Visualizing does not help you

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Multiple Choice

Why is it important to make connections while reading?

Making connections is a critical reading comprehension strategy that helps students make meaning of what they are reading.  When students make connections to the texts that they are reading, it helps them to make sense of what they read, retain the information better, and engage more with the text itself.

• Making connections helps the reader to better understand the text.

• It only helps you to summarize a text. 

Multiple Choice

1. Making an inference is the process of…

• Stating the opposite of what is happening in the text.

• Making a guess over what the text is about.

• Making an educated guess about a text based on clues and background knowledge.

• Looking at context clues in a text.

Multiple Choice

When making an inference, the most important thing is...

• Being able to prove your inference by using evidence from the text.

• The characters in the text.

• The topic of text.

• What you know about the topic.

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Abby plays softball and accidentally breaks a window. How do you think she feels?

• She is scared of getting in trouble.

• She is happy and excited because she threw the ball so hard.

• She is thinking about her math homework.

• She loves softball!

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The arctic is a cold and windy place. How my a polar bear stay warm?

• Get a haircut.

• Eat lots of fish.

• Go dancing.

• Go swimming.

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What is evidence?

• Evidence is random facts.

• Evidence supports what you are inferring.

• Evidence is the opposite of what you were trying to prove.

• Evidence is something you make up.

Multiple Choice

When stating evidence you should...

• Use a text talker.

• Use words such as, the reason I think this is because.

• Use a complete sentence.

• All of the above.

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Rachel went to the bookstore to get a book that was just released. When she got there, she was told the last copy was just sold. Hearing this makes Rachel upset. What evidence from the text supports how she feels?

• The worker at the bookstore talk to her.

• The last copy of the book was sold.

• Rachel didn’t want to read the book.

• Rachel does not like to read.

Multiple Choice

The plant did not receive water so it started to wither away. Using context clues, what does the word wither mean?

• Bright green leaves

• A type of flower.

• The plant is dying.

• The plant is growing tall.

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Charlie loves to read. One night, Charlie’s dad noticed that Charlie was squinting as he read his book. It was also only a few inches away from his face. Charlie’s dad noticed over the next few days that Charlie did this every time he was reading. Charlie would squint his eyes and hold whatever he was reading close to his face. Charlie’s dad scheduled an appointment for Charlie to see the eye doctor. What can you infer about Charlie?

• Charlie likes to read.

• Charlie thinks it’s fun to squint his eyes.

• Charlie needs glasses to help him see.

• Charlie’s favorite color is orange.

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Based on the text, you can infer that Charlie needs glasses. What sentence best provides evidence to support this?

• Charlie loves to read.

• Charlie would squint his eyes and hold whatever he was reading close to his face.

• Charlie’s dad scheduled an appointment for Charlie to see the eye doctor.

• Charlie’s dad noticed over the next few days that Charlie did this every time he was reading.