Reading Strategies

What can you use to figure out what a character’s traits are?

• what the character says 

• what the character thinks 

• how other characters react to the character 

• all of the above

Dialogue is

• what the teachers say to each other

• song lyrics

• what the characters say to each other

• prediction

When answering multiple choice questions, what is the first thing you should do?

• always choose C

• read all answer choices first

• look for a pattern with the letters

• choose your favorite letter

When I visualize I ?

• summarize

• make connections

• see a picture in my head from the text.

• make a conclusion that is not stated in the text.

When inferring you have to do what?

• assume something that is not stated in the text.

• guess what will happen.

• just pick anything

• make connections

The three types of connections are

• text to self, text to food, text to world

• text to world, text to self, text to media

• text to self, text to text, text to world

Using clues around a "tricky" word to figure out what it means is called?

• an inference

• using context clues

• predicting

• decoding

Relate what you are reading to something that you already know about a topic is called?

• questioning

• summarizing

• connecting

• visualizing

Stopping to check that you are understanding the text is called?

• a decoding strategy

• context clues

• inferencing

• monitoring comprehension

When you paint a picture in your mind as you read, its called:

• asking questions

• inferencing

• determining importance

• visualizing