Active reading requires students who are competent in identifying and using a range of comprehension strategies. These strategies should be applied in a flexible way so that students can respond to the intricacies of different text types and adjust their strategy selection to suit the needs of the text. These strategies empower students to use thinking processes that can aid the understanding they build from reading the text. They can be used before, during and after reading. Comprehension strategies that can be used for beginning and developing readers to enhance their awareness of their thinking processes as they read include: making connections; predicting; questioning; visualizing; inferring; determining importance; monitoring; summarizing; and synthesizing.

2. Answer the next question:

A.   What is the main idea of the text?
Identifying and comprehension strategies

3. Write three definitions that the text provides.
Predicting: students are encouraged to predict what the text may be about from the front cover
Questioning: readers ask questions before, during and after reading.
Summarizing: readers take notes, written or mental,about he importante aspectos of the text and provide a summary of the text. 

4. What kind of “Relation of ideas”, do the text have? Write all of them.
° These strategies should be applied in a flexible way. 
° These strategies empower students to use thinking processes. 
° Comprehension strategies that can be used for beginning and developing 
° Adjust their strategy

5. What are context clues? Mention and describe two of them
Identifying: establish or indicate who or what ir.
Understanding: ability to understand something, comprehension.