Test Prep ELA Reading Strategies

Making pictures in your mind as you read to help you "see" what you are reading.

• Determining what's important

• Visualizing

• Making predictions

• Making an inference

Making educated guesses about what will happen next in the text.

• Summarizing and Synthesizing

• Making Predictions

• Asking Questions

• Making Connections

Identifying main ideas and differentiating them from supporting details.

• Evaluating

• Making Inferences

• Visualizing

• Determining What's Important

Briefly explaining the beginning, middle and the end of text.

• Asking Questions

• Summaring and Synthesizing

• Making Connections

• Evaluating

Relating what you are reading to the world, yourself or other texts

• Making Predictions

• Making Connections

• Asking Questions

• Visualizing

One technique we can practice to help us with visualizing is to

• Look up words we are unsure of

• Make an assumption about what we read

• Connect what we read to our lives

• Draw out what we picture

One technique we can practice to help us with connecting is to

• Look up words we are unsure of

• Make an assumption about what we read

• Connect what we read to our current lives

• Draw out what we picture

This strategy involves asking good questions to keep us more mentally engaged with what we read.

• Visualizing

• Connecting

• Inferring

• Questioning

This strategy involves taking clues from the text to think ahead or make a judgement

• Visualizing

• Connecting

• Inferring

• Questioning

One technique we can practice to help us with determining importance is

• Look up words we are unsure of

• Skim through text for details about the plot

• Ask questions about the author's purpose

• Make an educated guess about a character based off the text