WPM Reading Comprehension Strategies

Question 1

Which reading comprehension strategy involves students creating mental images of the text as they read?

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Visualizing

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Summarizing

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Questioning

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Predicting

Question 2

When a student stops reading to ask 'Does this make sense?' they are using which metacognitive strategy?

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Self-monitoring

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Inferencing

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Synthesizing

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Text mapping

Question 3

A student reads a passage and connects new information to something they already know from personal experience. Which strategy is this?

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Text-to-self connection

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Text-to-text connection

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Text-to-world connection

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Text-to-media connection

Question 4

Which strategy requires a reader to use clues from the text combined with prior knowledge to figure out something not explicitly stated?

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Inferencing

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Skimming

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Summarizing

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Paraphrasing

Question 5

A teacher models how to identify the most important ideas and restate them in fewer words. Which comprehension strategy is being taught?

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Summarizing

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Predicting

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Visualizing

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Questioning

Question 6

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?

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Predicting

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Synthesizing

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Questioning

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Clarifying

Question 7

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?

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Using context clues

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Phonetic analysis

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Morphemic analysis

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Consulting a glossary