Reading Strategies

This strategy helps us come up with a mental image of what we read.

• Visualizing

• Connecting

• Inferring

• Questioning

One technique we can practice to help us with visualizing is to

• Look up words we are unsure of

• Make an assumption about what we read

• Connect what we read to our lives

• Draw out what we picture

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

This strategy helps us build a bridge from what we already know to what we read.

• Visualizing

• Connecting

• Inferring

• Questioning

One technique we can practice to help us with connecting is to

• Look up words we are unsure of

• Make an assumption about what we read

• Connect what we read to our current lives

• Draw out what we picture

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

This strategy involves asking good questions to keep us more mentally engaged with what we read.

• Visualizing

• Connecting

• Inferring

• Questioning

Tags

CCSS.SL.9-10.1C

One technique we can practice to help us with questioning is

• Look up words we are unsure of

• Make an assumption about what we read

• Ask questions about the author's purpose

• Draw out what we picture

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

CCSS.RI.9-10.6

This strategy involves taking clues from the text to think ahead or make a judgement

• Visualizing

• Connecting

• Inferring

• Questioning

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.W.9-10.9

Two techniques we can practice to help to build vocabulary is

• Look up words we are unsure of

• Use context clues

• Ask questions about the author's purpose

• Make an educated guess about a character based off the text

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.6

An inference is...

• Text evidence + what you know
• Retelling a text
• Making a guess without evidence
• Information written directly into the text.

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

Simile or Metaphor?
The assignment was a breeze.

• Simile
• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4