reading strategies

What is a valid strategy in understanding what you have read?

• preview the text before reading
• re-read the text

Inferencing is when the reader makes connections based on 

• what he or she thinks to be true
• what he or she thinks to be false

What do good readers do when they are reading?

• Visualize while they are reading.
• Talk to their mom about what they are going to do over the weekend.
• Just keep reading even if it doesn't make sense.
• Wonder why their teacher loves the color purple

Context clues help readers to...

• not understand what they are reading.
• understand the meaning of an unknown word.
• not use strategies.
• be confused.

To make an inference you take what you know, and what the author tells you to….

• come up with something the author doesn't tell you.
• know the wrong answer.
• not think about the story at all.
• stop reading.

How many times should you read something when you are close and critically reading?

• Just once
• Two times
• Three times
• Two or more, depending on how much information I am collecting

Why is it important to close and critically read?

• To make sure I am getting as much out of the text as possible
• It's not
• To compare information 
• To make sure the paper is of the highest quality

Why is it important to "cite" textual evidence?

• To use evidence from the text to prove you read it.
• To use evidence from the text to support your answer.
• To prove your answer is correct
• All of the above

Explaining your answer means ....

• Adding your thoughts to what the answer means
• Adding your thoughts about the text
• Adding another sentence to make the answer long enough

To find the main idea of the section you are reading.

• summarize
• predict
• ask a question
• metacognitive