Reading Skills

Another word for main idea of the reading

• inference

• Gist

• Simile

• Conclusion

To see or create mental pictures in your mind as you read

• Visualize

• Draw

• Predict

• Annotate

When readers do this, it helps them relate what they are reading or are about to read to something they already know.

• Making inferences

• Making connections

• Making predictions

• Making annotations

Tells the beginning, middle, and end of the reading including the main idea and details.

• Conclusion

• Topic sentence

• exposition

• Summary

I should highlight the t_________________ sentence or f______________ statement of each paragraph.

• topic/ focus

• topic/ figurative language

• tone/ flashback

• text features/ focus

If you "wonder" about something while reading

• focusing on a topic

• making a conclusion

• questioning

To make a decision about what will happen next in a text

This is a p___________

marking up your paper with notes

• annotating

• illustrating

• questioning

• inferencing

an educated guess you make based on facts in the text plus what you already know from life

• making inferences

• making connections

• making predictions

• making answers

reading or glancing through quickly

• speed reading

• skimming

• searching

• selecting