Reading Strategies

Which Reading Strategy allows you to figure out the answer to a question by using context clues, re-reading, or using outside resources?

• Making Connections

• Visualizing

• Evaluating

• Questioning and/or Clarifying

• Inferring and/or Predicting

What can I infer from this picture?

• The lion wants to play.

• The lion is gentle.

• The lion is hungry.

• The lion likes pictures.

True or False: When you create mental images while you read, you visualize what the author is describing.

• True

• False

When strong readers come to an unfamiliar word, they can use ___________________ to help them determine the meaning of the unknown word.

• visualize

• are present

• context clues

• set a purpose

True or False: Only "bad" readers run into comprehension problems.

• True

• False

Which Reading Strategy allows you to create an image in your head as you read?

• Making Connections

• Visualizing

• Evaluating

• Questioning and/or Clarifying

• Inferring and/or Predicting

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

• asking questions

• inferencing

• determining importance

• visualizing

Main Idea (or Central Idea) means...

• what a piece of writing is mainly about--the BIG PICTURE

• Reader's knowledge about the topic from your own experience - needed to make connection

• A statement of ideas or information that a passage of text will discuss

• A conclusion reached by finding and putting together clues and evidence from the text

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

• a decoding strategy

• context clues

• inferencing

• monitoring comprehension

True or False: Good readers ask questions before, during, and after reading.

• True

• False