Reading Strategies

Determine what you think will happen in the text. 

• Visualize
• Predict
• Connect
• Clarify

Create mental images of the settings, characters, and events in the text. 

• Connect
• Visualize
• Clarify
• Evaluate

Tags

CCSS.W.6.3D

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

• Clarify
• Evaluate
• Question
• Predict

Think about what you already know about the text. Find ways to relate the text to yourself, other texts, and the world around you. 

• Predict
• Visualize
• Clarify
• Connect

Think about the text as a whole and form opinions about what you read. 

• Evaluate
• Question
• Predict
• Connect

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.SL.6.1D

CCSS.W.6.9A

Stopping when you are confused to reread or look up a word you don't know.

• Connect
• Clarify
• Evaluate
• Predict

What are some good things to think about after you are done reading the passage?

• the theme
• the author's purpose
• the summary
• all of the above

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.7.6

CCSS.RL.7.2

When reading the questions and answers what should you NOT do?

• eliminate incorrect answers
• rely on your memory of the passage
• prove your answers by underlining or highlight the text evidence
• underline key words in the question

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.1

The big idea or lesson from a reading is called the ______________________.

• theme
• compare and contrast
• resource materials
• evidence

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.2

A story is considered a

• Poem
• Speech
• Theme
• Narrative