# Comprehending and Responding to Texts: Match the Strategy

When you read, watch, or listen to a text, you use a toolkit of strategies to understand what is happening and what it means. These eight strategies, infer, synthesize, perspective, bias, context, predict, summarize, and analyze, are central to how readers and viewers build meaning from texts ([Details](https://goa-cc-uat-aili-app-001.azurewebsites.net/explore/node/45598)). In Grade 12, you apply these strategies to increasingly complex materials, making connections across texts, examining the author's choices, and recognizing how historical and social contexts shape what a text says and how it is understood ([Outcome](https://goa-cc-uat-aili-app-001.azurewebsites.net/explore/node/45596)). This game asks you to match each strategy to the description of how it works in practice.

## How to play

- The left column lists 8 terms (A to H); the right column lists 8 definitions or examples numbered 1 to 8.
- Write the number that matches each letter. Each number is used once.
- Check your answers against the answer key.

## Match the pairs

| Column A | | Column B |
|:---|:---:|:---|
| **A.** infer | ____ | **1.** The historical, social, or cultural setting that shapes how a text is understood |
| **B.** synthesize | ____ | **2.** An author favouring one side of an issue over another without fairness |
| **C.** perspective | ____ | **3.** Reading closely to see how ideas in a text relate to each other |
| **D.** bias | ____ | **4.** Condensing a text down to its main idea and supporting evidence |
| **E.** context | ____ | **5.** Imagining an outcome based on the title, pictures, or background knowledge |
| **F.** predict | ____ | **6.** Blending several pieces of information into one expanded understanding |
| **G.** summarize | ____ | **7.** The angle from which a character or author views a situation |
| **H.** analyze | ____ | **8.** Drawing a conclusion from context clues rather than a stated fact |

## Answer key

- **A** matches **8** (infer: Drawing a conclusion from context clues rather than a stated fact)
- **B** matches **6** (synthesize: Blending several pieces of information into one expanded understanding)
- **C** matches **7** (perspective: The angle from which a character or author views a situation)
- **D** matches **2** (bias: An author favouring one side of an issue over another without fairness)
- **E** matches **1** (context: The historical, social, or cultural setting that shapes how a text is understood)
- **F** matches **5** (predict: Imagining an outcome based on the title, pictures, or background knowledge)
- **G** matches **4** (summarize: Condensing a text down to its main idea and supporting evidence)
- **H** matches **3** (analyze: Reading closely to see how ideas in a text relate to each other)

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*AILI game · language en · model claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 · generated 2026-09-17 · id b26b6e91-2783-4b21-8cab-f952c0a7f6e8*

### Sources

- node:n1: Comprehension: Text comprehension is supported by applying varied strategies and processes and by considering both parti (https://goa-cc-uat-aili-app-001.azurewebsites.net/explore/node/45053)
- node:n2: How does comprehension facilitate the meaning of a text? (https://goa-cc-uat-aili-app-001.azurewebsites.net/explore/node/45054)
- node:n3: Students examine and apply a variety of processes to comprehend texts. (https://goa-cc-uat-aili-app-001.azurewebsites.net/explore/node/45055)
- node:n4: LANENG2-OI7-GQ1-LO1-KO1-K (https://goa-cc-uat-aili-app-001.azurewebsites.net/explore/node/45057)
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- node:n6: How do comprehension strategies enhance interpretations of texts? (https://goa-cc-uat-aili-app-001.azurewebsites.net/explore/node/45595)
- node:n7: Students interpret and respond to texts through application of comprehension strategies. (https://goa-cc-uat-aili-app-001.azurewebsites.net/explore/node/45596)
- node:n8: LANENG6-OI7-GQ1-LO1-KO1-K (https://goa-cc-uat-aili-app-001.azurewebsites.net/explore/node/45598)