Active Reading Strategies for Enhanced Comprehension

The video tutorial covers reading strategies to enhance comprehension. It addresses the common issue of feeling 'lost in space' while reading and provides techniques to keep the brain engaged. Key strategies include questioning, making connections, inferring, evaluating, summarizing, and predicting. These methods help readers monitor their understanding and relate the text to personal experiences, other texts, and the world. The tutorial emphasizes the importance of using evidence from the text to make informed predictions.

What is the main issue students face while reading, as mentioned in the introduction?

• They feel lost and forget what they read.

• They read too fast.

• They don't like the book.

• They read too slowly.

What should your brain be doing while you read?

• Worrying about school.

• Daydreaming.

• Thinking about tomorrow's plans.

• Focusing on the book.

Which type of question has answers directly in the text?

• Author and Me

• Right There

• Think and Search

• On My Own

What type of question requires you to use your own experiences or do research?

• Right There

• Think and Search

• Author and Me

• On My Own

What is an example of a text-to-self connection?

• Connecting the novel to a historical event.

• Connecting the novel to a movie.

• Connecting the novel to another book.

• Connecting the novel to your own experience.

Which type of connection involves relating the novel to real-world events?

• Text-to-Self

• Text-to-World

• Text-to-Movie

• Text-to-Text

What does it mean to make an inference while reading?

• Skipping parts of the text.

• Using clues in the text to understand deeper meanings.

• Guessing without any clues.

• Reading the text aloud.

What is required to evaluate a text?

• Using multiple inferences to understand the text deeply.

• Ignoring the text's details.

• Reading only the first chapter.

• Making random guesses.

What is the 'Somebody Wanted But So' method used for?

• Evaluating character traits.

• Making connections.

• Predicting the next chapter.

• Summarizing the text.

What should you use to make a prediction about what will happen next in a story?

• Details from the text.

• Your favorite movie plot.

• Random guesses.

• The book's cover.