Reading Strategies

What do reading strategies do for the reader?

• Shows readers how to understand.

• Shows readers how they are thinking.

• Gives readers ways to understand the text.

• all of the above

When you guess what the story may be about based on text features like the title and/or illustrations, you

• predict

• infer

• question

• visualize

When you ask about words you do not recognize, you

• predict

• infer

• question

• visualize

When you picture something happening in the plot or the setting of a story, you

• predict

• infer

• question

• visualize

When you make a comparison between something happening in the text and your own experience, another story, or even real events happening in the world, you

• connect

• evaluate

• infer

• clarify

When you provide an opinion about what you are reading and reason(s) to support it, you

• connect

• evaluate

• infer

• clarify

When you take what you know from the text and make a guess, you

• connect

• evaluate

• infer

• clarify

When you summarize all or a portion of what you read, you

• connect

• evaluate

• infer

• clarify