Reading Comprehension Strategies Flashcards
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Which reading comprehension strategy involves students creating mental images of the text as they read?
Answer: Visualizing
Visualizing is the strategy where readers form mental images based on the text, which deepens engagement and aids retention.
When a student stops reading to ask 'Does this make sense?' they are using which metacognitive strategy?
Answer: Self-monitoring
Self-monitoring is a metacognitive strategy in which readers check their own understanding and recognize when comprehension breaks down.
A student reads a passage and connects new information to something they already know from personal experience. Which strategy is this?
Answer: Text-to-self connection
Text-to-self connections link the content of a text to a reader's own personal experiences, thoughts, or feelings.
Which strategy requires a reader to use clues from the text combined with prior knowledge to figure out something not explicitly stated?
Answer: Inferencing
Inferencing (or inferring) means drawing conclusions that are implied but not directly stated, using text evidence plus background knowledge.
A teacher models how to identify the most important ideas and restate them in fewer words. Which comprehension strategy is being taught?
Answer: Summarizing
Summarizing involves identifying the key ideas and restating the text in a condensed form, omitting less important details.
Before reading a nonfiction article, a student looks at headings and images and says, 'I think this text will be about climate change.' Which strategy is the student using?
Answer: Predicting
Predicting involves using text features and prior knowledge to make educated guesses about what the text will contain before reading.
A student uses context clues from surrounding sentences to determine the meaning of an unfamiliar word. This is an example of which comprehension support strategy?
Answer: Using context clues
Using context clues means leveraging surrounding words and sentences to infer the meaning of unknown vocabulary within a text.
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