Best Reading Strategies

When you use evidence to make a guess, you are using the reading strategy called ____.

• Connect
• Visualize
• Clarify
• Infer/Predict

When you determine what you think will happen next in the text you __________. 

• Visualize
• Predict
• Connect
• Clarify

Creating mental images of the settings, characters, and events in the text is called __________. 

• Connect
• Visualize
• Clarify
• Evaluate

Think about what you already know about the text. Find ways to relate the text to yourself, other texts, and the world around you. 

• Predict
• Visualize
• Clarify
• Connect

If you start reading a book that seems too hard for you, you should...

• keep reading
• throw it across the room
• put it back and find a book that is just right
• complain that the book is boring

Which one of these ways helps you understand a story?

• predicting what will happen next
• pausing after reading a part to ask yourself what just happened (giving yourself a comprehension check)
• retelling the BIG parts of the book 
• all of these choices

How do you know if a book is JUST RIGHT for you?

• I can read every single word without any problems.
• There are 5 or more words on a page that I don't know/can't read.
• I can retell what I read, and make connections to what I am reading.
• I cannot remember what I just read.

When I come across a word I don't know, I should...

• just keep reading and not worry about what the word means
• use the context clues in the text to help me figure out what the word means
• skip over the word and forget about it
• stop reading the book 

What does it mean to visualize as you read?

• Make a drawing

• See what's happening in your mind

• watch the movie version

• read aloud

When using this Reading Strategy, you the reader are determining what you think will happen in the text.

• Visualizing

• Predicting

• Inferring

• Connecting