Reading Focus Text Evidence to Support Responses

Determine what you think will happen in the text. 

• Visualize
• Predict
• Connect
• Clarify

Create mental images of the settings, characters, and events in the text. 

• Connect
• Visualize
• Clarify
• Evaluate

Stop and ask yourself questions to see if the text makes sense. 

• Clarify
• Evaluate
• Question
• Predict

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

Think about the text as a whole and form opinions about what you read. 

• Evaluate
• Question
• Predict
• Connect

Stopping when you are confused to reread or look up a word you don't know.

• Connect
• Clarify
• Evaluate
• Predict

An inference is...

• Text evidence + what you know
• Retelling a text
• Making a guess without evidence
• Information written directly into the text.

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

• Connect
• Visualize
• Clarify
• Infer/Predict

What are some good things to think about after you are done reading the passage?

• the theme
• the author's purpose
• the summary
• all of the above

I need to do this when I get confused with my reading.

• ask a question
• predict
• re-read
• make connections