Annotation
Reading Comprehension
Strategies
Skill Vocab 1
From the Text
Skill Vocab 2
100

To ask about a confusing passage or unfamiliar word.

What is a question?

100

To ask questions before, during, and after reading a text.

What is generating questions?

100

A reader's question or comment about a text written directly on the text.

What is annotation?

100

Totally and definitely; without question.

What is absoloutely?

100

The ability to understand what the text says.

What is comprehension?

200

To say something in return; to answer or reply.

What is respond?

200

Creating pictures in your head can help you determine what an author or poet is describing.

What is visualizing?

200

Identifying a reason for reading a text.

What is setting a purpose for reading?

200

A liquid or other substance thought to have special, often magical powers.

What is an elixir?

200

To quote as evidence to support a response.

What is to cite?

300

To trace the development of events or ideas within a text.

What is track?

300

Collecting relevant information as you read can help you understand and build on information that is introduced earlier in the text.

What is synthesizing?

300

Details from the text that a reader can use to support his or her ideas and opinions about the text.

What is textual evidence?

300

To take preventative action.

What is to forestall?
300

To examine part of a text.

What is analyze?

400

The act of making a judgement or decision about something.

What is evaluation?

400

Being aware of what you do and don’t understand throughout a text can help you focus on areas that you may need to reread or apply an additional strategy to understand a text completely.

What is Monitoring Comprehension?

400

Precisely and clearly expressed.

What is explicit?

400

To do something loudly and with confusion.

What is tumultuously?

400

To explain the meaning of information.

What is interpret?

500

An idea formed by combining textual evidence and one's own reasoning and background knowledge.

What is inference?

500

Sometimes a text will give a lot of information. Evaluating details that are most important or significant can help you understand a text’s main ideas or themes.

What is Evaluating Details?

500

Implied but not stated directly.

What is implicit?

500

Repeated and annoying requests or demands.

What is importunity?

500

To make logical decisions about characters and events that are not state clearly.

What is to make inferences?