Reading strategies

An inference is...

• Text evidence + what you know

• Retelling a text

• Making a guess without evidence

• Information written directly into the text.

Simile or Metaphor?
The assignment was a breeze.

• Simile

• Metaphor

When you use evidence to make a guess, you are using the reading strategy called ____.

• Connect

• Visualize

• Clarify

• Infer/Predict

There is a child sleeping upstairs quietly, when all of a sudden there is a loud "THUMP!"  We can infer that:

• The child continued to sleep calmly

• The child fell out of bed

• The child was eating a bag of chips

• The child was reading a book

Simile or Metaphor?
This house is as clean as a whistle.

• Simile

• Metaphor

A story is considered a

• Poem

• Speech

• Theme

• Narrative

Highlighting and annotating are techniques that can

• add to the reader's understanding

• make it difficult to understand main ideas

• express your artistic ability

• have no benefit at all

Author's Purpose: An “X-men” comic book.

• Persuade

• Inform

• Entertain

Annotation is a note made while reading text. 

• True 

• False

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.