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7th grade · English Language Arts · Unit 14 of 20

Reading Strategies

Predict, connect, question and summarize

What your child practices

Children practice strategies good readers use: drawing on what they know, predicting, connecting, summarizing and reading fluently.

New York State Learning Standards learning standard: 7R1; 7R2 · predicting from evidence in the text, making connections and summarizing

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Use what you know to predict, then check as you read.
  2. Make connections and summarize to understand and remember.
  3. If something is still unclear, reread or find another source. Fluency means accurate words, expression and a steady rate.

Example: You finish an article but still don’t know how the bridge was built. What should you do? This article didn’t answer your question. Look elsewhere. Answer: Find more information from another source

Reading Strategies in New York

In the New York State Learning Standards, this is unit 14 of 20 in 7th grade English Language Arts, after Spelling: Prefixes and Patterns and before Plan & Organize Writing.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: New York State Education Department (NYSED)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    While reading, you find out your prediction was wrong. What should you do?

    • Skip the chapter
    • Stop reading
    • Ignore the new information
    • Change the prediction using the new information

  2. Question 2

    Reading with expression, accurate words and a steady rate is called…

    • fluency
    • theme
    • setting
    • plot

  3. Question 3

    A good summary of an article includes…

    • your opinion of the author
    • every detail
    • only the title
    • the main ideas, without your opinions

  4. Question 4

    Which is the best way to use prior knowledge before reading?

    • Ask yourself what you already know about the topic
    • Skip to the last page
    • Copy the first paragraph
    • Count the words

  5. Question 5

    Which helps build reading fluency?

    • Reading as fast as you can without looking
    • Skipping hard words
    • Reading only the headings
    • Rereading a passage aloud several times

  6. Question 6

    Two readers read the same poem about winter. One loves skating and one dislikes the cold. Why might their interpretations differ?

    • Their experiences are different
    • Poems have no meaning
    • The poem changed
    • One of them cannot read

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