Active Reading Strategies

When you think about what might happen next in a story you are using the strategy of____________.

• Questioning

• Clarifying

• Predicting

• Evaluating

Use this strategy to help you infer something that wasn't exactly stated.

• Visualize

• Predict

• Clarify

• Connect

Finding something you have in common with a character or thinking about what your reading reminds  you of is the strategy of _______.

• Questioning
• Clarifying
• Predicting
• Connecting

When you give your opinion of a book or story, you are using the ____________ strategy.

• Question

• Evaluation

• Visualize

• Clarify

Making pictures in your mind as you read is an example of________.

• Predicting
• Connecting
• Visualization
• Clarifying

Wondering about why a character acted in a certain way is using the comprehension skill of ____________.

• Visualizing

• Evaluating

• Predicting

• Questioning

"This story reminds me of something I heard on the news," is an example of which strategy?

• Visualizing

• Connection

• Clarifying

• Evaluation

Making a connection to a text based on something in your own life is an example of...

• Text-to-World Connection

• Text-to-Self Connection

• Text-to-Text Connection

• Text-to-Others Connection

"The snow glows white on the mountain tonight

Not a footprint to be seen

A kingdom of isolation,

And it looks like I'm the queen."

What part of the lyrics best help to visualize the setting?

• I'm the queen

• Footprint to be seen

• The snow glows white on the mountain tonight

• A kingdom of isolation

The character in the book Dragonwings reminds me of a character in the book Number the Stars. Both characters are brave.

Which type of connection is this?

• text-to-self

• text-to-text

• text-to-world