Reading Strategies: Vocabulary

When you summarise, you:

• make an educated guess about what the text will be about, what will happen next or what a word means

• identify / express the most important points within the text

• grow as readers and change your thinking during and after reading a text

• identify the similarities between two or more things in a text

When you make connections to a text, you make connections to:

• text

• self

• world

• what you think, feel and wonder

When you infer / inference, you:

• consider what you have discovered through reading the text and express deeper understanding

• carefully examine information in order to understand, interpret and explain the text

• use the information given to figure certain things out or make meaning from something that the text does not clearly state

• pause during reading to think about the text being read and assess your understanding

When you predict, you:

• identify the differences between two things

• ask yourself questions as you read a text, and seek answers

• form opinions, make judgments, and develop ideas from reading

• make an educated guess about what the text will be about, what will happen next or what a word means

When you evaluate, you:

• form opinions, make judgments, and develop ideas from reading

• grow as readers and change your thinking during and after reading a text

• create a mental image in your mind as you read

• identify the differences between two things

When you justify, you:

• consider what you have discovered through reading the text and express deeper understanding

• use the information given to figure certain things out or make meaning from something that the text does not clearly state

• provide good reasoning and an explanation behind something

• pause during reading to think about the text being read and assess your understanding

When you analyse, you:

• grow as readers and change your thinking during and after reading a text

• carefully examine information in order to understand, interpret and explain the text

• form opinions, make judgments, and develop ideas from reading

• consider what you have discovered through reading the text and express deeper understanding

When you synthesise, you:

• identify the differences between two things

• identify the similarities between two things

• consider what you have discovered through reading the text and express deeper understanding

• grow as readers and change your thinking during and after reading a text

When you engage in questioning, you:

• pause during reading to think about the text being read and assess your understanding

• ask yourself questions as you read a text, and seek answers

• provide good reasoning and an explanation behind something

• make an educated guess about what the text will be about, what will happen next or what a word means

When you compare, you:

• identify the differences between two things

• identify the similarities between two things

• identify the same but different

• create a mental image in your mind as you read