Comprehension Skills

What readers do to determine which parts of a text they do or do not understand.

• monitor comprehension

• synthesize ideas

• make inferences

• reading comprehension strategies

This step allows you to spark your reading by attempting to make a match to your life.

• Challenge through questions

• Making changes as you read

• Making connections

• Forming concepts (big ideas)

This step creates pictures in your mind of what you are reading. What is it?

• Visualization

• Inference

• Monitoring comprehension

What does it mean to discover ideas in writing that are not stated directly?

• Making inferences

• Making figures of speech

• Making similes

• Making metaphors

What is the overall expression of the author's attitude or feeling about a subject?

• Editorial

• Topic sentence

• Tone

• Thesis statement

This describes the ways to approach a text that help readers make meaning of the words on a page.

• visualization

• making inferences

• identifying the 'big ideas'

• reading comprehension strategies

This is the step of forming or identifying the main idea(s) of the paragraph, text, or article. This is the "Big Picture(s)" that matches with which of the 4Cs?

• Connections

• Challenges

• Concepts

• Changes

For a two-mark question for language impact, what is most likely expected of the reader?

(You can choose more than one answer)

• Explain meaning of particular words, expressions or phrases

• Infer ideas based on the vocabulary used in the passage

• Lift words from the passage as the answer.

• Explain the vocabulary as it is used in the passage

You review your knowledge of bees before reading a text of honey bees. This is ...

• generating new ideas

• linking to your prior knowledge

• visualizing as a mental picture

• identifying main ideas

What is skimming?

• Quickly reading over a text to get the general gist.

• Quickly reading over a text to find a specific piece of information which is focused upon