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Reading and Comprehension
Learning Activity 4

4-1: Active Reading

Read the text again. Look at the following guidelines. Did you practice any of these thinking skills? If so, put a check in the box. If you did not use some of the thinking skills, use this guideline for future reading. Be an active reader!

Did you have to think about blocking out background noise?  
Did you ask questions in your mind?  
Did you connect what you already know with the text?  
Did you find the main idea?  
Did you make inferences?  
Did you find out the meaning of words by reading the other words around it?  
Did you skim, scan and skip around to find the meaning of a word?  

Make a list of all the things you do when you read to help you understand the text that you are reading. Share your list with others in the class.