Monitoring Comprehension

One strategy a reader can use to get ready to read is...

• asking quesitons

• drawing conclusions

• making presumptions

• answering questions

Monitoring comprehension means

• getting at least and 80% on a reading test

• only reading what you understand

• using strategies to know when you do or do not understand what you read

• writing a report about what you read

Strategies you can use when you do not understand something you have just read includes all of the following except...

• asking questions about the text or the author

• determine the text structure

• visualize or draw something from the text

• read it again

For good readers, monitoring comprehension and using reading strategies are...

• automatic

• unnatural

• not something that can be learned

• difficult

Each of the following are strategies for monitoring comprehension while you read except...

• questioning

• testing

• using text features

• annotating

Active readers connect to the text while reading in each of the following ways except

• text-to-text

• text-to-author

• text-to-self

• text-to-world

Which of the following is not a strategy you can use to improve reading comprehension?

• Make questions out of the headings and subheadings.

• Think about something similar that you have heard about or experienced.

• Discuss what you are reading with a peer.

• Take a test on the text.

Good readers monitor their understanding of a text by doing all of the following except...

• recognizing important details in the text

• recognizing the use of figurative language

• noting the illustrations to help make sense of the text

• skipping anything that is difficult to understand

Which of the following would be least helpful once you realize that you do not fully understand what you are reading?

• try to write down notes and ideas about the text.

• keep reading

• look up unknown words

• ask questions

Which of the following would a good reader most likely do to monitor comprehension?

• Avoid text the is too difficult

• multi-task during reading

• visualize scenes and events in the text

• take notes form every paragraph of the text