Reading Comprehension Strategies

When characters and events remind me of things in my life, I am  

• Making Predictions

• Making Connections to Self

• Summarizing

• Inferring

When you ask questions while reading it helps you 

• make a choice

• remind you of your life

• dig deeper into the story

After you make a prediction, it is important to 

• stop reading, because you already know what will happen

• tell others what's going to happen

• read on to see if your predictions are true or not

Making pictures in your mind as you read is an example of________.

• Predicting

• Connecting

• Visualization

• Summarizing

Finding something you have in common with a character or thinking about what you are reading reminds you of is the strategy of _______.

• Questioning

• Summarizing the story

• Predicting the future

• Connecting to self

A short description of what happens in a story is called_________. 

• Summarize

• Evaluate

• Predict

• Synonym

When you think about what might happen next in a story you are using the strategy of____________.

• Questioning

• Summarizing

• Predicting

• Antonym

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

• Ignore it

• Use a dictionary 

• Skip over it

• Use context clues

When you try to figure out what you think will happen in the text. 

• Visualize

• Predict

• Connect

• Clarify

Create mental (in your mind) images of the settings, characters, and events in the text. 

• Connect

• Visualize

• Clarify

• Evaluate