What is Active Reading?

• The act of reading speedily to find the main ideas.

• The act of reading without paying attention to the task or keeping the questions in mind.

• The act of reading to understand and evaluate a text.

Active Reading Strategies are the mental process that highly effective readers use when approaching reading.

• True

• False

Through active reading, readers can:

• Improve their mood and concentration.

• Enhance their critical thinking skills.

• Retain the information for longer periods of time.

• All the options are correct.

The strategy that claims “reader forms an opinion and judgment the writing style” belongs to:

• Evaluation

• Monitoring Comprehension

• Predicting

The strategy that claims “Readers look over the reading material in order to become familiar with it” belongs to:

• Inferring

• Evaluating

• Previewing

The strategy that claims “A reader re-reads text again for deeper understanding, word identification and fluency” belongs to:

• Re-reading

• Skimming

• Visualizing

Author's Purpose strategy leads to:

• Break the information into small sections to comprehend the text more easily.

• Use a dictionary, thesaurus, reference chart or glossary.

• Know the reason and intent of the writer.

To have a prior knowledge leads to:

• Understand the topic better and at a deeper level.

• Condense important information into their own words.

• Make guesses or predictions.

What does paraphrasing mean?

• Consider information that the readers already know.

• Re-state and re-write text in their own words.

• Skip unfamiliar word(s).

The strategy that claims “Readers create images in their minds that reflect or represent the ideas in the text.” belongs to:

• Visualizing

• Summarizing

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