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

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

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)

Tags

CCSS.RF.1.3A

CCSS.RF.1.3D

CCSS.RI.1.3

CCSS.RI.2.3

CCSS.RI.3.8

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

• Visualization

• Inference

• Monitoring comprehension

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

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

• Making inferences

• Making figures of speech

• Making similes

• Making metaphors

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

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

• Editorial

• Topic sentence

• Tone

• Thesis statement

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

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

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

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

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

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

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

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

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

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

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RI.8.10