Before Reading
What should you look at first, before reading to get an idea of the text?
Titles and pictures
What strategy helps you guess what will happen next in a story?
Predicting/Inferring.
What does it mean to retell a story?
Tell the main events or ideas in your own words.
A synonym.
What is a word with the same or similar meaning?
The book that starts with the line: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”
What is 'Tale of Two Cities' by Charles Dickens.
Why is activating prior knowledge helpful before reading?
It connects what you know to new information.
What should you encourage students to do if they don’t understand a word while reading?
Use context clues.
How does asking questions after reading help a student?
It deepens understanding.
The prefix “un-”
What is not or opposite?
The narrative technique where a story is told by a character who uses “I.”
What is first person point of view?
What does it mean to “set a purpose for reading”?
Decide why you are reading and what to focus on.
What is the term for creating mental pictures while reading?
Visualizing.
What is a summary? How can you apply this in tutoring?
A brief statement of the main ideas.
“Context clues”
What are hints in the text to help figure out word or sentence meaning.
The literary term for a story’s message or lesson.
What is a theme?
What is one question you could ask a student before reading?
Examples: “What do you think this will be about?”.
What does monitoring comprehension mean?
Checking if you understand the text.
What is one way to help students make connections with a text after reading?
Relate it to their life or other texts.
“Root word”
What is the main part of a word that gives it meaning?
The character who famously said, “To be, or not to be”
Who is Hamlet?
What is the difference between previewing and predicting before reading?
Previewing is looking at text features; predicting is guessing what will happen.
Name two ways a tutor can encourage active reading during a session.
Examples: highlighting, asking questions, taking notes.
Why is reflecting on reading strategies after a session important?
Helps students identify what worked and improve future reading.
Morpheme.
What is the smallest unit of meaning in a word?
The author who wrote The Catcher in the Rye.
Who is J.D. Salinger?