Tips for Reading Comprehension

What is a valid strategy in understanding what you have read?

• preview the text before reading
• re-read the text

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CCSS.RF.K.3A

CCSS.RF.K.3B

CCSS.RF.K.3C

CCSS.RF.K.3D

CCSS.RF.K.4

Inferencing is when the reader makes connections based on 

• what he or she thinks to be true
• what he or she thinks to be false

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CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

What do good readers do when they are reading?

• Visualize while they are reading.
• Talk to their mom about what they are going to do over the weekend.
• Just keep reading even if it doesn't make sense.
• Wonder why their teacher loves the color purple

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CCSS.RF.K.3A

CCSS.RF.K.3B

CCSS.RF.K.3C

CCSS.RF.K.3D

CCSS.RF.K.4

Context clues help readers to...

• not understand what they are reading.
• understand the meaning of an unknown word.
• not use strategies.
• be confused.

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CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.K.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

To make an inference you take what you know, and what the author tells you to….

• come up with something the author doesn't tell you.
• know the wrong answer.
• not think about the story at all.
• stop reading.

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CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

How many times should you read something when you are close and critically reading?

• Just once
• Two times
• Three times
• Two or more, depending on how much information I am collecting

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CCSS.RF.K.3A

CCSS.RF.K.3B

CCSS.RF.K.3C

CCSS.RF.K.3D

CCSS.RF.K.4

Why is it important to close and critically read?

• To make sure I am getting as much out of the text as possible
• It's not
• To compare information 
• To make sure the paper is of the highest quality

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CCSS.RF.K.3A

CCSS.RF.K.3B

CCSS.RF.K.3C

CCSS.RF.K.3D

CCSS.RF.K.4

Explaining your answer means ....

• Adding your thoughts to what the answer means
• Adding your thoughts about the text
• Adding another sentence to make the answer long enough

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CCSS.RI.1.1

CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.RI.K.1

CCSS.RI.K.4

CCSS.RL.K.1

Realize you have something in common with the story.

• metacognitive
• Make connections
• visualize
• ask a question

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CCSS.RF.K.3A

CCSS.RF.K.3B

CCSS.RF.K.3C

CCSS.RF.K.3D

CCSS.RF.K.4

To think about what will happen next.

• summarize
• visualize
• predict
• question

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CCSS.RF.K.3A

CCSS.RF.K.3B

CCSS.RF.K.3C

CCSS.RF.K.3D

CCSS.RF.K.4