Reading strategies

What is it called when you relate what you are reading to the world, yourself or other texts?

• Making Predictions

• Making Connections

• Asking Questions

• Visualizing

STOP & THINK to use facts from text + your own knowledge and experience

• visualize

• inference

• evaluate

• synthesize

Answer explanation

This strategy involves taking clues from the text to think ahead or make a judgement

• Visualizing

• Connecting

• Inferring

• Questioning

If you had to guess at an answer, it is a good idea to go back when you finish the test and look at the question again.

• True

• False

If you are reading a nonfiction book and you don't know a word but it's NOT bold. What can you do to help figure out the meaning of the word?

• summarize the page

• use context clues

• just skip it

• draw a picture

What are some things I can do after I have read a passage to better understand what I read?

• Answer the test questions that my teacher gives me.

• Ask new questions about a different topic that I thought of when I was reading the passage.

• Read over my notes, answer any questions I may have had, look up the words I didn't know to find out what they mean, and talk about the passage with someone else who has read it.

• Take a nap because reading can be hard work and my brain needs to rest.

ALL the following are examples of annotating a text EXCEPT

• Underline 

• Circle 

• Cross out 

• Write a question 

What is the first thing you should do when taking the test?

• read the passage

• highlight important lines

• read the questions

• write "I love ELA" on the cover

When you find something you have in common with the text, what is that called?

• Plan

• Monitor

• Make Connections

• Ask Questions

Name the four Types of Passages given in the order as which they are on the test in the correct order.

• Prose Fiction/Literary Narrative, Science, Humanities/Art, Social Studies

• Social Studies, Humanities/Art, Prose FIction/Literary Narrative, Science

• Prose Fiction/Literary Narrative, Social Studies, Humanities/Art, Science

• Humanities/Art, Prose Fiction/Literary Narrative, Social Studies, Science