Active Reading Strategies

What are: visualizing; summarizing; clarifying; making connections; responding to ideas; asking questions?

• tools to identify important information
• ways to mark a text
• active reading strategies
• all of the above

When you draw an illustration about the text, you are...

• Connecting
• Visualizing
• Clarifying
• Evaluating

When a reader writes, "It saddens me that we are destroying animal habitats", which strategy is s/he using?

• Clarifying
• Questioning
• Responding
• Summarizing

Stop and ask yourself questions to see if the text makes sense. 

• Clarify
• Evaluate
• Predict
• Summarize

Tags

CCSS.SL.6.1D

 Find ways to relate the text to yourself, other texts, and the world around you. 

• Predict
• Visualize
• Clarify
• Connect

The Questioning Strategy means you might ask, "What is the purpose of this section?"

• True
• False

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.6

Stopping when you are confused to reread.

• Connect
• Clarify
• Evaluate
• Predict

Which one of the following is NOT a part of a summary?

• using your own words
• summary being shorter than the text
• only exact words from the text
• including main ideas only

If a reader looks up definitions to unknown words, s/he is using a strategy called 

• Connect
• Evaluate
• Predict
• Clarify

Purposeful engagement with the text is

• an alarm
• passive reading
• active reading
• none of the aboce