Reading Strategies - Show What You Know!

The main idea is supported by _________.

• the topic sentence.

• the details.

• the paragraph.

Creating pictures in your mind to help you "see" what you're reading is called __________

• summarizing.

• connecting.

• visualizing.

• paraphrasing.

______________ is a strategy that you can use when you don't understand something in a text.

• Summarizing

• Questioning

• Visualizing

• Writing

________________ is an an example of finding something that you have in common with the text.

• Connecting

• Summarizing

• Questioning

• Erasing

Reading between the lines to make a logical conclusion is a strategy called _________________

• making inferences

• summarizing

• questioning

• predicting

What are reading strategies?

• Strategies to help you read aloud

• Strategies to confuse the reader.

• Strategies to improve reading speed.

• Strategies to help the reader understand the text.

Making a guess about what will happen later in the text is a strategy called _______________________.

• predicting

• activating prior knowledge

• clarifying

• evaluating

Identifying the main idea and restating it in your own idea is a strategy called _________________

• predicting

• summarizing

• clarifying

• note taking

Text-to-self connections happen when something in the text reminds you of a ___________________

• book you already read.

• personal experience.

When you're reading, you can think about what you already know about a topic to help you understand the text. This strategy is called __________________.

• summarizing

• exploring

• activating prior knowledge