Reading Comprehension Strategies Review

Explain metacognition.

• Thinking about your thinking.  Being aware of how you are reading and how you are using reading strategies.

• Guessing what is going to happen based on evidence

• a piece of information from a text that we use to support our ideas, beliefs, opinions, and arguments

• Events, situations, characters, or settings a book that you have experienced personally; it reminds you of something in your own life

What is the prediction strategy?

• Thinking about your thinking.  Being aware of how you are reading and how you are using reading strategies.

• Guessing what is going to happen based on evidence

• a piece of information from a text that we use to support our ideas, beliefs, opinions, and arguments

• Something in the book reminds you of another book you have read

Which question do you NOT ask before reading?

• What will the book be about?

• Who will the main characters be?

• What big events will happen in the story?

• How will character(s) respond to a problem?

What questions do you ask during reading? (There are two answers.)

• How will character(s) respond to a problem?

• Where will the events take place?

• Who might help character(s) solve the problem?

• Which predictions were correct?

Which question do you NOT ask after reading?

• What will the book be about?

• Which predictions were correct?

• Which predictions were incorrect?

• Why were the predictions incorrect?

What must you use to make predictions?

• Your 5 senses (see, hear, smell, feel, taste)

• The solution or 

          ending

• Text evidence

• Introduction to the problem in the story

What is text evidence?

•  Thinking about your thinking.  Being aware of how you are reading and how you are using reading strategies.

• Guessing what is going to happen based on evidence

• a piece of information from a text that we use to support our ideas, beliefs, opinions, and arguments

• Seeing the characters, setting, and events play in your head as you read a story; a mind movie

How many types of connections are there?

• 2

• 4

• 5

• 3

Explain text-to-self connections.

• Events, situations, characters, or settings a book that you have experienced personally; it reminds you of something in your own life

• Something in the book reminds you of another book you have read

• Something in the book reminds you of something that has happened, or is happening in the world

• Seeing the characters, setting, and events play in your head as you read a story; a mind movie

Explain text-to-world connections.

• Events, situations, characters, or settings a book that you have experienced personally; it reminds you of something in your own life

• Something in the book reminds you of another book you have read

• Something in the book reminds you of something that has happened, or is happening in the world

• Seeing the characters, setting, and events play in your head as you read a story; a mind movie