Reading Strategies (Analyzing Character/Vocabulary Context Clues)

When you stop occasionally to review what you have read and understand it's 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

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

When using this Reading Strategy, you the reader are creating mental images of the settings, characters, and events in the text.

• Questioning

• Identifying

• Visualizing

• Evaluating

When using this Reading Strategy, you the reader are asking yourself questions to see if the text makes sense.

• Inferring

• Predicting

• Make-believing

• Questioning

One strategy of clarifying is to _________ the text to help you understand the text.

• reread

• quit reading

• keep going in

• stop reading