WorksheetsReading Strategies & All Short Stories
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 7mins
What is clarifying?
From time to time, stop and review your understanding of what you read.
Summarize
Identify the main idea
Make conclusions
All of the above
When you make connections, you...
Make conclusions
Make an opinion
Think of similarities between what is being described in the book and what you have experienced, heard, or read in the past
Make an inference
Make a prediction
To evaluate is to...
Make a conclusion
Make an opinion
Make an inference
Make a connection
Some example of making connections are:
Text to Text
Text to World
Text to Self
All of the above
Before you begin to read you might make ...
an opinion
an inference
a prediction
a conclusion
What was the short story "The All American Slurp" about?
A Chinese immigrant girl who was learning the American culture.
A Japanese immigrant girl who was learning the American culture.
At the end of the short story "The All American Slurp," the narrator learned that ...
We all do the best we can when we are learning new customs.
It's okay to have different cultures.
All Americans slurp.
All of the above.
In the short story "Eleven," Rachel is ...
a student that gets very sick in school.
a student that gets very embarrassed in school by her teacher.
By the end of the short story "Eleven," we learn a new way of thinking about ...
cats
dogs
food
birthdays
In the short story "The Circuit" you can describe the main character Panchito as
Lazy
Hardworking
Rude
Uninterested in education
In the short story "Three Hundred Pesos," one of the messages or themes in the story is...
Never share your money
Never be greedy with money
Never be kind to others
Never help your family and friends
"The Circuit" takes place in the state of
California
Texas
New Mexico
Nevada
When you visualize while reading, you are painting a picture in your mind, imagining the characters and the setting.
True
False
When you ask questions while reading you are are:
Asking questions about the events
Wondering about character decisions
Asking questions about the problem and solutions
All of the above
Theme is
the message the author is trying to teach us
a lesson
and it can be told through the characters, the setting or plot
All of the above
Inferencing is
using what you already know
using evidence from the text
to figure out what the author is saying
All of the above
In the short story "The Circuit," what is one challenge Panchito faces?
Disliking his family
Having too much free time
Moving frequently for work
Making new friends at school
Which reading strategy helps you understand the main idea by stopping and checking your comprehension?
Predicting
Connecting
Clarifying
Visualizing
In the short story "Three Hundred Pesos," what lesson does the main character learn?
Money solves all problems
Life is short, share what you have
It's best to keep secrets
Generosity can lead to trouble
When making predictions before reading, you are:
Making connections to your life
Summarizing the story
Guessing what will happen next
Evaluating the author's purpose
Which reading strategy involves using clues from the text and your own knowledge to understand what is not directly stated?
Predicting
Summarizing
Visualizing
Inferencing
When you clarify while reading, you are:
Focusing only on the main character
Ignoring confusing parts
Reviewing and checking your understanding
Making predictions about the ending
