Reading Strategies

Highlighting and annotating are techniques that can

• add to the reader's understanding

• make it difficult to understand main ideas

• 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.

Which best describes a summary?

• a really long detailed piece of writing

• the entire text told in your own words

• a dumb thing that teachers make you write

• the main ideas and important details of a text

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

• Connect

• Visualize

• Clarify

• Evaluate

Think about the text as a whole and form opinions about what you read. 

• Evaluate

• Question

• Predict

• Connect

What are some good things to think about after you are done reading the passage?

• the theme

• the author's purpose

• the summary

• all of the above

An inference is...

• Text evidence + what you know

• Retelling a text

• Making a guess without evidence

• Information written directly into the text.

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.

Which best describes a summary?

• a really long detailed piece of writing

• the entire text told in your own words

• a dumb thing that teachers make you write

• the main ideas and important details of a text

Which type of text structure shows how two or more things are alike and different?

• Chronological

• Cause & Effect

• Problem & Solution

• Compare/Contrast