Reading Comprehension Strategies

Creating a mental picture based on the text

Giving brief statements about the text

Using text details and background knowledge to answer what is not said

Connecting new information to prior experiences

Explaining in your own words what the text is about

Stating the most important point of the text

Telling how things are similar or different

Predicting future events in the text

To predict what will happen next

To state information in a new way without losing the meaning

To use context clues to understand unknown words

To connect prior information to new experiences

To predict future events in the text

To find the main idea of the text

To connect prior information to new information and experiences

To create a mental picture based on the text

The writer's way of saying who is telling the story

The most important or central point the author wants you to understand

A common message not explicitly stated in the text

Information that helps to understand the main idea

Telling how things are similar and different

Using words or phrases to determine the meaning of unknown words

Telling what is going to happen next or in the future

Creating a mental picture or image in your mind

The most important or central point of the text

A common message, not explicitly stated in the text

The writer's way of saying who is telling the story

Information that helps to understand the main idea

To predict what will happen next

To summarize the text in your own words

To determine the meaning of unknown words

To connect new information to prior experiences

The central message of the story

The writer's way of saying who is telling the story to whom

The background knowledge used to understand the story

The mental picture created by the story

To use context clues to understand the text

To create a mental picture or image in your mind based on the words we read or hear

To connect prior information to new information

To state information in a new way

The writer's way of saying who is telling the story

The most important or central point of the text

Information that helps to understand the main idea

A common message not explicitly stated in the text

Presenting facts and figures

Listing steps or events in order

Describing a problem and its solution

Telling or writing what happened in a story using a beginning, middle, and ending

A cause and its effects

Steps or events in order

A fact that can be proven to be true

The reason an author writes a story

A fact is what you think, feel, or believe

An opinion is a statement that can be proven to be true

A fact is a statement that can be proven to be true

An opinion is why something happens

When the author describes a problem and explains how it is solved

The reason an author writes a story

A cause is why something happens, and an effect is what happens

Listing steps or events in order

Telling or writing what happened in a story

Listing steps or events in order

When the author describes a problem and explains how the problem is solved

A fact that can be proven to be true

A statement that can be proven to be true

Why something happens and what happens as a result

The reason an author writes a story: to describe, explain/inform, entertain, or to persuade

Listing steps or events in order