Reading Strategies Definitions
What strategy includes you looking for details about how a person, place or thing looks, sounds, smells, feels, or tastes
Visualizing
When someone is behaving in a secretive way, they are being...
clandestine
What should a reader do if they make a prediction but the outcome ends up being different?
Revise the prediction
What strategy requires you to create an educated guess about what is going to happen next in a text?
Making Predictions
If someone is sent away from a place by a person in a position of authority, they have been...
Banished
What is one strategy to use while previewing a text?
Reading subheads
Reading the table of contents
Looking at the photos or illustrations
Reading the first page
Reading the title
What strategy requires you to identify something in the text to something you have personally lived, seen, or learned?
Text-To-Self Connections
If something is incapable of being counted because there are so many, there is a _______ amount of it.
Innumerable
What is a reader doing when they are using clues in the text to find out new information?
Making inferences
What is a reader doing when they are reading the title and first page of a text, studying the cover, and making a list of difficult words?
Previewing a passage
Less than normal size; small and weak
Puny
It helps a reader to stop and think about what they are reading, and what they know about this subject.
Which strategy requires the reader to state the most important details from a text in a shorter way?
Retelling or summarizing
A messenger or agent who usually represents a group or government, is a...
Emissary
What are the steps in making and modifying predictions?
1. Find specific details or clues
2. Add your own knowledge
3. Combine text info with your own knowledge to guess what will happen next
4. Read on to see if your prediction is right
5. Gather more info, add your own knowledge, and make new predictions