Reading Strategies

What you read makes you wonder something - this is:

• Using context clues

• Asking a question

• Making an inference

• Paraphrase

Writing or saying the important parts that happened is

• Paraphrasing

• Responding

• Summarizing

• Making a connection

The main character hangs off a cliff! You think he'll survive. This is

• Predicting

• Reading ahead

• Using context clues

• Asking a question

You underline the topic sentence of a paragraph. This is...

• Making a connection

• Making an inference

• Responding

• Finding the main idea

You write !!!!! in your book when Hermione punches Draco! This is

• Making a connection

• Finding the main idea

• Responding

• Predicting

You have no idea what's going on as you read. You keep going to see if it clears up. This is

• Re-reading

• Predicting

• Making an inference

• Read ahead

Something the character does reminds you of your own experience. This is

• Responding

• Summarizing

• Making an inference

• Making a connection

The clues in a murder mystery help you guess the killer. This is

• Making an inference

• Paraphrasing

• Finding the main idea

• Asking a question

Rereading is NOT helpful when

• You read something once and don't understand

• You read something fast and don't understand

• You keep rereading but it doesn't help

• A part has a lot of hard words

Using context clues when you read is...

• Making a prediction based on evidence

• Making an educated guess

• Using parts you understand to figure out what you don't

• When the book gives you hints about what happens next