Reading Test Strategies

The title can tell you....

• what the selection is mostly about

• the setting

• the problem

What the paragraph, section or story is mostly about.

• details

• text features

• main idea

What strategy helps you find the BEST summary in a fiction story?

• F.A.S.T

• CPR

• M.I.N.T.S

Why do you need reading strategies?

• To make reading more fun

• To help you understand what you are reading

• To make reading more difficult

What is activating and using background knowledge?

• Trying to figure out what will happen next in the story

• Making an educated guess on what is happening

• Taking what information you already know to help you understand what you're reading before you read it

• Creating a mental image of what is happening

How do you make an inference?

• What you already know + What the author tells you

• Asking before, during, and after questions

• Doing research over what you are reading

• Making a know-wonder-learn chart

To make an inference you should....

• Think about what you know

• Read for clues

• Figure out what makes sense

• All of the above

What is predicting?

• Trying to figure out what is happening in a story

• Using what you already know to determine what might happen in a story

• Asking a friend what a story is about

• Rereading a story to better understand it

Which reading strategy would you most likely use for this text?

• Activating background knowledge

• Inferencing

• Visualizing

• Generating Questions

What is visualizing?

• Taking information you know to help you understand what you're reading

• Figuring out what will happen next

• Creating a picture in your head based off of what you read

• Telling the main idea of a story