Reading Strategies Middle School

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

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

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

• Summarizing and Synthesizing

• Making Predictions

• Asking Questions

• Making Connections

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

Identifying main ideas and differentiating them from supporting details.

• Evaluating

• Making Inferences

• Visualizing

• Determining What's Important

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

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

• Asking Questions

• Summaring and Synthesizing

• Making Connections

• Evaluating

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

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

• Making Predictions

• Making Connections

• Asking Questions

• Visualizing

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

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

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

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

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CCSS.RF.1.3A

CCSS.RF.1.3D

CCSS.RI.1.3

CCSS.RI.2.3

CCSS.RI.3.8

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

• Visualizing

• Connecting

• Inferring

• Questioning

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

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

• Visualizing

• Connecting

• Inferring

• Questioning

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

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

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI.7.2