Reading Strategies

Reading Strategies

1. 1. Monitoring comprehension

   • Identify what is not understood
   • you be aware of what is meant

2. 2. Metacognition

   • Identify where the difficulty occurs
   • Restate the difficult sentence or passage in their own words
   • Look back through the text

3. 3. Graphic and semantic organizers

   • focus on concepts and how they are related to other concepts.
   • Used to illustrate the cause and effects told within a text

4. 4. Answering questions

   • "Right There"
   • "Think and Search"
   • "Author and You"
   • "On Your Own"

5. 5. Generating questions

   • can be taught to ask main idea questions that relate to important information in a text
   • combine information from different segments of text.

6. 6. Recognizing story structure

   • identify the categories of content
   • Recognize story structure through the use of story maps.

7. 7. Summarizing

   • Identify or generate main ideas
   • Connect the main or central ideas
   • Eliminate unnecessary information
   • Remember what they read

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