Reading Strategies For Middle School

What do ACTIVE READERS do?

• Use reading strategies before they read

• Use reading strategies while they read

• Use reading strategies after they read

• All of the answers are correct

When you look at the headings, pictures, and bold words of a text, you are...

• Previewing

• Summarizing

• Inferring

• Predicting

Fiction texts are...

• Made up stories

• Texts that tell about real-life people, places, and things

Nonfiction texts are...

• Made up stories

• Texts that tell about real-life people, places, and things

Identifying a reason for reading the text is also known as...

• Setting a purpose

• Predicting

• Inferring

• Questioning

Which of the following is a purpose for reading?

• To learn

• To solve problems

• To answer questions

• All answers are correct

To entertain

To inform

To persuade

These are all examples of...

• Genres

• Author's purpose

• Novels

• Reading strategies

When you think about what you already know about a topic before reading you are...

• Questioning

• Activating prior knowledge

• Summarizing

• Making a text connection

Who, what, when, where, why?

These are all examples of...

• Questions

• Genres

• Reading strategies

• Predictions

Using what you know from the text to make a guess about what will happen next is...

• Predicting

• Monitoring

• Infering

• Making a text connection