Reading Strategies

Multiple Choice

What do ACTIVE READERS do?

• Use reading strategies before they read

• Use reading strategies while they read

• Use reading strategies after they read

• All of the answers are correct

Multiple Choice

When you look at the headings, pictures, and bold words of a text, you are...

• Previewing

• Summarizing

• Inferring

• Predicting

Multiple Choice

Fiction texts are...

• Made up stories

• Texts that tell about real-life people, places, and things

Multiple Choice

Nonfiction texts are...

• Made up stories

• Texts that tell about real-life people, places, and things

Multiple Choice

Identifying a reason for reading the text is also known as...

• Setting a purpose

• Predicting

• Inferring

• Questioning

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a purpose for reading?

• To learn

• To solve problems

• To answer questions

• All answers are correct

Multiple Choice

To entertain

To inform

To persuade

These are all examples of...

• Genres

• Author's purpose

• Novels

• Reading strategies

Multiple Choice

When you think about what you already know about a topic before reading you are...

• Questioning

• Activating prior knowledge

• Summarizing

• Making a text connection

Multiple Choice

Who, what, when, where, why?

These are all examples of...

• Questions

• Genres

• Reading strategies

• Predictions

Multiple Choice

Using what you know from the text to make a guess about what will happen next is...

• Predicting

• Monitoring

• Infering

• Making a text connection

Multiple Choice

What is metacognition?

• Thinking about your own thinking

• Questioning the text

• Using reading strategies

• Rereading the text

Multiple Choice

True or false: Rereading is a way to self-monitor while reading

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

True or false: Asking yourself questions while you read is NOT a way to self-monitor

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Creating mental pictures of information is...

• Monitoring

• Questioning

• Metacognition

• Visualizing

Multiple Choice

When you relate prior experiences to the text you are making...

• A summary

• A synthesis

• A text connection

• A prediction

Multiple Choice

Separating key points of information from unimportant information is...

• Synthesizing

• Summarizing

• Evaluating

• Reflecting

Multiple Choice

Creating a concise statement of the most important parts of the passage is...

• Synthesizing

• Summarizing

• Evaluating

• Reflecting

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a POST reading strategy?

• Summarize

• Predict

• Infer

• Preview

Multiple Choice

Examining the value, quality, or importance of what you read is...

• Evaluating

• Questioning

• Monitoring

• Summarizing

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Which of the following is a PRE-READING strategy?

• Previewing

• Evaluating

• Inferring

• Monitoring

Reading Strategies

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Open Ended

What makes someone a good reader?

Open Ended

What is something you should do BEFORE reading a passage?

Open Ended

What can you predict about the story "The Stray Dog"?

Open Ended

What can you do during reading to make you a better reader?

Open Ended

What is one connection you can make to this story? What does this title/cover remind you of?

Ever watched a movie and thought "this sucks I never would have done that" then you've evaluated. Do the same thing in your reading.

This is a key part of understanding theme (the texts lesson to the reader).

Canvas has your practice assignment.

Multiple Choice

How is Warren portrayed in the paragraph?

• He is boring

• He is busy

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In the last sentence, which word has the same meaning as "beautiful"?

• pinnacle

• phenomenal

• sublime

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Questions analyzing character in fiction

Fiction passages rarely reveal character insights so you must make inferences (draw conclusions) and look for clues in the passage.

Reading tips

• Read the questions before the passage

• Pay attention to character's thoughts, words, and actions a writer uses these to reveal the character

• Let's do some practice

Multiple Choice

How is Warren portrayed in the paragraph?

• He is boring

• He is busy

Multiple Choice

What does Warren do for Walter twice every day?

• He makes him food

• He helps him with homework

Multiple Choice

The details in the scene convey the woman's

• anxiety

• loneliness

• anger

Multiple Choice

The main character can best be described as -

• a young child who is lost

• a person who works at an airport

• a woman in a foreign place

Multiple Choice

The dialogue in the paragraph reveals

• the man's dishonesty

• the boy's indifference

• the boy's cleverness

• the man's generosity

Multiple Choice

The dialogue in the paragraph reveals

• working

• in school

• waiting for friends

• related to the man

Vocabulary

Don't know what it means? Look it up in the dictionary

Reading questions and vocabulary

• a question may give you the target word

• it may provide the meaning in the choices

• BUT you have to read the context

• Let's do some practice

For many, the idea of bungee jumping is an extraneous risk and thus not worth taking.

The word extraneous means ?

The word extraneous means ?

• extreme

• unnecessary

• extraneous: irrelevant or unrelated to the subject being dealt with.

• unnecessary

A far more pragmatic point of view is to take risks only when you have something tangible to gain from them .

Which word has the same meaning as "real"?

Which word has the same meaning as "real"?

• pragmatic: dealing with things sensibly and realistically 

• tangible: perceptible by touch.

• tangible

• Now some more practice

Multiple Choice

In the first sentence, the word tantalizes means

• beckons

• teases

• frustrates

Multiple Choice

In the last sentence, which word has the same meaning as "beautiful"?

• pinnacle

• phenomenal

• sublime

Multiple Choice

In the first two sentences, which word has the same meaning as "came apart"?

• unrolled

• coveted

• deteriorated

• saturated

Multiple Choice

In the third sentence, the word indispensable means

• unbreakable

• surprising

• necessary

• bulky

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