Reading Strategies

Which of these is a text-to-world connection?

• I just read a book about trees.

• I just read a book about trees. I have climbed trees.

• I just read a book about trees. I saw a video of trees on-line.

• I just read a book about trees. There are many trees being cut down in the rain forest destroying habitats.

Background knowledge is...

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

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

• A section of text

• form a mental image of something; imagine

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

• asking questions

• inferencing

• determining importance

• visualizing

What can I infer from this picture?

• The lion wants to play.

• The lion is gentle.

• The lion is hungry.

• The lion likes pictures.

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

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

• True

• False

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

• a decoding strategy

• context clues

• inferencing

• monitoring comprehension

What does SQ3R stand for?

• Survey, Question, Read, Read, Read

• Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review

• Survey, Quote, Read, Recite, Review

• Stop, Question, Read, Recite, Record

What does it mean to "synthesize" information?

• To forget it

• To write about it

• To combine it

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