Active Reading Strategies

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

• Predict

• Visualize

• Clarify

• Connect

Create mental images of the settings, characters, and events in the text. 

• Connect

• Visualize

• Clarify

• Evaluate

Good readers ask questions _____, ______, and _____ reading. (type the three words)

Visualizing when reading is

• looking at the pictures.

• reading words with my eyes.

• making a movie in my mind.

• not necessary in understanding text.

Which active reading strategy is shown in the sentence below? "I can get a mental picture of what the writer is saying!"

• Predict

• Synthesize

• Connect

• Visualize

Which active reading strategy is shown in the sentence below?"That reminds me of what I saw on the news last night."

• Identify

• Question

• Connect

• Synthesize

Which active reading strategy is shown in the sentence below?

"He just looked in the mirror for the third time before leaving. I'll bet he's worried about how he looks."

• Infer

• Summarize

• Question

• Predict

Which active reading strategy means to give a short version of the main events of the story?

• Visualize

• Infer

• Summarize

• Identify

Which active reading strategy means to point out supporting details, main idea, theme, or author's purpose?

• Question

• Summarize

• Synthesize

• Identify

Which active reading strategy means to put together the pieces of what you already know about a topic with what you just read to get a better understanding of the topic?

• Connect

• Question

• Synthesize

• Visualize