📖 Part 1: Understanding the Four Strategies

1. Match each strategy with its correct description by drawing lines:

Predicting

Questioning

Clarifying

Summarising

Asking questions about the text

Retelling the main ideas briefly

Guessing what might happen next

Understanding difficult words or ideas

2. Which strategy would you use first when starting a new story?

Questioning

Predicting

Summarising

Clarifying

📚 Part 2: Practice with a Text Excerpt

Read this short passage:

"Maya packed her backpack carefully. She checked her torch, rope, and water bottle twice. The cave entrance loomed ahead, dark and mysterious. Her heart raced with excitement and nervousness. Tomorrow's expedition would be her first real adventure underground."

3. Predicting: What do you think will happen to Maya in the cave? Write your prediction below:

4. Questioning: Write TWO questions you have about this passage:

Question 1: ________________________________________________

Question 2: ________________________________________________

5. Clarifying: Circle any words you might need to clarify for a younger student:

expedition

loomed

backpack

mysterious

underground

6. Summarising: Write a summary of the passage in 1-2 sentences: