Vocabulary Set #1 - (Reading Comprehension Strategies)

Making meaning of text; understanding what you read

• Monitoring Thinking

• Inference

• Vocabulary

• Comprehension

The meaning of words

• Vocabulary

• Visualizing

• Synthesizing

• Determine Importance

Ability of a reader to be aware, while reading, whether a text is making sense or not.

• Comprehension

• Setting a Purpose

• Monitor Thinking

• Question the Text

What strategy will you use when reading comprehension breaks down.

• Determine Importance

• Fix-up Strategies

• Monitor Thinking

• Vocabulary

When you connect what you read, to something you already know

• Making Connections

• Visualizing

• Question the Text

• Synthesize

Using background knowledge plus evidence from the text to state an idea, prediction or conclusion.

• Comprehension

• Fix-up Strategies

• Making Connections

• Inference

Asking questions before, during, and after reading a text, to stay engaged and increase understanding.

• Inference

• Setting a Purpose

• Question the Text

• Vocabulary

Imagining that you can see, hear, smell, touch, and/or feel what you are reading in the text.

• Inference

• Visualizing

• Making Connections

• Text Features

Identify the most important details.

• Fix-up Strategies

• Text Features

• Monitor Thinking

• Determine the Importance

Combine new information with existing information, to gain new understanding.

• Synthesize

• Vocabulary

• Text Features

• Monitor Thinking