Good Reading Strategies

Which one of these ways helps you understand a story?

• predicting what will happen next

• pausing after reading a part to ask yourself what just happened (giving yourself a comprehension check)

• retelling the BIG parts of the book 

• all of these choices

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CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

Making educated guesses about what will happen next in the text.

• Summarizing and Synthesizing

• Making Predictions

• Asking Questions

• Making Connections

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CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

Identifying main ideas and differentiating them from supporting details.

• Evaluating

• Making Inferences

• Visualizing

• Determining What's Important

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CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

Relating what you are reading to the world, yourself or other texts

• Making Predictions

• Making Connections

• Asking Questions

• Visualizing

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CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

One technique we can practice to help us with visualizing is to

• Look up words we are unsure of

• Make an assumption about what we read

• Connect what we read to our lives

• Draw out what we picture

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CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

This strategy involves asking good questions to keep us more mentally engaged with what we read.

• Visualizing

• Connecting

• Inferring

• Questioning

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CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

This strategy involves taking clues from the text to think ahead or make a judgement

• Visualizing

• Connecting

• Inferring

• Questioning

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CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

One technique we can practice to help us with determining importance is

• Look up words we are unsure of

• Skim through text for details about the plot

• Ask questions about the author's purpose

• Make an educated guess about a character based off the text

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CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

This strategy involves learning the definitions to words we don't already know.

• Determining importance

• Synthesizing

• Inferring

• Building vocabulary

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CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

One of the first steps in annotating is

• Marking unknown vocabulary

• Writing about the author

• Looking for other books the author wrote

• Listening to the book

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CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.7.10