Reading Comprehension Strategies Flashcards

Grade 7 · English · Flashcards

Study the active reading strategies that strong readers use to understand, analyze, and remember texts.

Flashcards

Active reading: Deliberately engaging with text — questioning, connecting, visualizing, monitoring
Inference: A logical conclusion from text evidence + prior knowledge — not directly stated
Text-to-self connection: Linking what you read to your own life experiences and feelings
Text-to-text connection: Linking what you read to another book, article, film, or media
Text-to-world connection: Linking what you read to real-world events, history, or issues
Visualizing: Creating a mental image of what is described in a text
Summarizing: Restating the main ideas in your own words — tests true comprehension
Monitoring comprehension: Noticing confusion and applying fix-up strategies like re-reading or context clues
Literal comprehension: Understanding what the text directly states
Inferential comprehension: Understanding what the text implies — reading between the lines
Prior knowledge: What you already know before reading — helps you make meaning from new information
Context clues: Words and phrases near an unfamiliar word that hint at its meaning
Re-reading: A fix-up strategy: going back over confusing text more carefully
Predicting: Using evidence from the text to anticipate what might happen next