Bootcamp Unit 1 READING strategies

To visualize means to:

• see a concert live

• get pictures in your mind of what you are reading

• read a story over and over again

• run fast

Determining the main idea means:

• waiting to do your homework

• finding all the little details

• you look at all the names in the book

• figuring out what the story is mostly about

You should reread the text if you:

• are confused

• don't understand it

• don't understand the vocabulary

• all of these

What type of connections do readers make?

• text to text

• text to self

• text to world

• text to work

When I visualize I...

• summarize

• make connections

• see a picture in my head from the text.

• make a conclusion that is not stated in the text.

Using clues around a "tricky" word to figure out what it means is called?

• writing

• using context clues

• predicting

• decoding

Relate what you are reading to something that you already know about a topic is called?

• questioning

• summarizing

• connecting

• visualizing

You should reread the text if you:

• are confused

• are ready to go to bed

• wait for dinner time

• are getting a puppy

When I come across a word I don't know, I should...

• just keep reading and not worry about what the word means
• use the context clues in the text to help me figure out what the word means
• skip over the word and forget about it
• stop reading the book 

What is genre?

• A way to take notes

• Looking into an author's life

• A category of literature

• A type of graphic organizer