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Grade 7 · English Language Arts · Unit 13 of 20

Reading Strategies

Predict, connect, question and summarize

What your child practises

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

Manitoba Curriculum learning outcome: ELA.7.A2.6, ELA.7.B1.1, ELA.7.B1.3, ELA.7.B1.4, ELA.7.B2.3, ELA.7.B2.4, ELA.7.B2.7 · fluency, prior knowledge, multimodal text, gathering and summarizing information, predictions, connections and new vocabulary

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

    When you use information from two articles in your report, you should…

    • copy whole paragraphs
    • hide where it came from
    • use only the longer one
    • say which source each fact came from

  2. Question 2

    You come to an unfamiliar word in a paragraph. Which fluency strategy helps first?

    • Break it into parts and reread the sentence
    • Give up
    • Skip the whole page
    • Guess a random word

  3. Question 3

    A good summary of an article includes…

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

  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
    • Count the words
    • Copy the first paragraph

  5. Question 5

    You finish an article and notice you still do not know how the bridge was built. What should you do?

    • Find more information from another source
    • Stop thinking about it
    • Copy the title
    • Guess and move on

  6. Question 6

    How can your own experiences shape the way you read a text?

    • They cannot affect it
    • They change the words printed
    • They can change which parts seem important to you
    • They change the author

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