Comprehension Strategies

Wondering about why a character acted in a certain why is using the comprehension skill of ____________. 

• Visualizing

• Summarizing

• Predicting

• Questioning

When you use evidence to make a guess, you are using the reading strategy called ____.

• Connect

• Visualize

• Clarify

• Infer/Predict

An inference is...

• Text evidence + what you know

• Retelling a text

• Making a guess without evidence

• Information written directly into the text.

Highlighting and annotating are techniques that can

• add to the reader's  understanding

• make it difficult to understand main ideas

• to express your artistic ability

• have no benefit at all

To make an inference you take what you know, and what the author tells you to….

• come up with something the author doesn't tell you.

• know the wrong answer.

• not think about the story at all.

• stop reading.

When an Independent Reader stumble across an unknown word they should __________

• Ignore it

• Use a dictionary 

• Skip over it

• Use context clues

When I stumble upon a underlined word that I do not know the meaning to, I should −

• Use context clues from the sentences around the word

• Come up with a definition that I think maybe fits in the sentence

What question should I ask myself when determining the main idea of a paragraph?

• What details do not matter?

• What is the paragraph mostly or mainly about?

What strategy do you use when you note differences and similarities between passages?

• Author's Purpose

• Fact and Opinion

• Compare/Contrast

• Summarize

What strategy do you use to predict what will happen?

• Eenie-Meenie-Minee-Mo

• Close your eyes and point to an answer

• Drawing conclusions/ Inferencing

• Luck