Comprehension Strategies
Comprehension Skills
Fluency
Writing
Books
100
This means to paint a pciture in your head during reading.
What is Visualize?
100
What do we call a text when it is make-believe and could never happen in real life?
What is Fantasy?
100
What does fluency mean?
What is the ease, rate, smotthness, expression, etc. that one reads with?
100
This is what every sentence must start with and end with.
What is capital letter and period?
100

Summarize the play Twelve Angry Men

Twelve Angry Men is a play about 12 men who are on a jury and they have to decide if a boy is guilty or not guilty of murder.

200
What does comprehension mean?
What is understanding what you read!
200
What does fact mean? What does opinion mean?
What is something you can prove, something that is true and something that no one can argue with. What is something that someone thinks, feels, or believes.
200
Name 2 ways to improve your oral reading fluency.
What is fluency folders, one-minute readings, AIMSweb, choral reading, re-readings, etc.
200
This is what we call the first sentence in a paragraph.
What is topic sentence, opening sentence, etc.
200

We will be reading Hunger Games as our next book. What is some background knowledge you already have about the book Hunger Games?

Answers will vary...
300
Name 2 comprehension strategies that you use BEFORE reading.
What is activate prior knowledge, make predictions, ask questions, think aloud, etc.
300
Name the reason's why an author will write a text.
What is to persuade, inform or entertain (PIE)?
300
Why is fluency important in reading?
What is it helps you with your comprehension/understanding of a text?
300
This is what you do when you are done writing.
What is proofread and make corrections?
300

We read the book Chains this year. Who were the main characters in the book?

Isabel and Ruth

400
Name 3 comprehension strategies that you can use DURING reading.
What is make predictions, ask questions, make connections, visualize, draw conclusions, think aloud, etc.
400
Give an example of a real-life cause and effect relationship.
What is (select accurate student response).
400
How do you know if you have improved your rate of reading?
What is you count the number of words read correctly and graph the results.
400
Explain how to write a compare and contrast assignment.
What is write two paragraphs- one about the similarities and one about the differences?
400

Summarize the book Chains.

Chains, written by Laurie Halse Anderson, is the first in the Seeds of America trilogy of young-adult historical novels, published in the United States on October 21, 2008.[1] The story follows Isabel, a teenaged African-American slave striving for her and her younger sister's freedom during the American Revolutionary War. Chains takes place mainly in New York City in 1776 into 1777, at a time when slavery was legal and common in the Thirteen Colonies. The book is followed by sequels Forge (2010) and Ashes (2016).

500
What does it means to draw conclusions?
What is using text clues and your prior knowledge to figure out what else the author is trying to say!
500
What does main idea and supporting details mean?
What is telling what the text is mostly about and using details to support what the text is mostly about?
500
What is the goal of fluency practice?
What is to increase the number of words you can read per minute over time?
500
Explain how to write a paragraph.
What is topic sentence, details, closing sentence?
500

How do you get better at reading? What should you do over the summer?

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