Active Reading Strategies

What are: visualizing; evaluating; reviewing; making connections; predicting; asking questions?

• tools to help with reading comprehension
• opportunities to Stop-Think-Jot
• active reading strategies
• all of the above

When you draw an illustration about the text, you are...

• Connecting
• Visualizing
• Questioning
• Evaluating

When a reader writes, "It saddens me that we are destroying animal habitats and I think it is wrong", which strategy is s/he using?

• Predicting
• Questioning
• Retelling
• Evaluating

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

• Questing
• Evaluate
• Predict
• Visualize

 Reading to find ways to relate the text to yourself, other texts, and the world around you. 

• Predicting
• Visualizing
• Evaluating
• Connecting

The Questioning Strategy means you might ask, "What are the events, problem, and solution of this story?"

• True
• False

Stopping when you are reading to create a mental movie in your head.

• Retelling
• Visualizing
• Questioning
• Predicting

What strategy uses a KWL or 5-finger method?

• Connecting
• Evaluating
• Predicting
• Retelling

Which strategy requires you to give text support when writing on your sticky note?

• Visualizing
• Retelling
• Predicting
• All of the above

Why is it important to use Active Reading Strategies while we read?

• It will make the teacher happy.
• So we can become better writers.
• It helps with comprehension and understanding the text.
• So I can get an A in the class.