Reading Strategies

Reading Strategies

1. Making Connections

   • Strategic readers connect what they know with what they are reading.
     • Does this remind me of something?
     • Have I ever felt this way?
     • Has something like this ever happened to me?

2. Making Predictions

   • Strategic readers think about what's going to happen and make predictions based on what they know and what they have read.

3. Asking Questions

   • Strategic readers ask themselves questions before, during and after reading to better understand the author and the meaning of the text.

4. Visualizing

   • Strategic readers picture what is hapenning as they read.

5. Monitoring and Clarifying

   • Strategic readers stop to think about their reading and know what to do when they don't understand.

6. Summarizing and Synthesizing

   • Strategic readers identify the most important ideas and restate them in their own words.

7. Determining what's important

   • Strategic readers think about the text's big idea or message and why it's important.

8. Analyzing Author's CRAFT

   • Strategic readers notice the way the author uses language to get his or her ideas acrros.

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