Reading strategies

Reading strategies

1. Graphic and semantic organizers: Graphic organizers help students read and understand textbooks and picture books.

2. Generate questions: Generating questions helps people to have a purpose to read and to focus more when reading.

3. Skimming: We use skimming to find the general ideas of what we are reading, these are generally located in the first lines of a paragraph

4. Answering questions: These help the reader to focus on whats he is reading and it helps to think actively as they read.

5. Metacognition: Is the ability to think about and to have control over your own reading process.

6. Monitoring Comprehension: Is the ability to know when you are not undrestandig what you are reading and to do something to fix it.

7. Scanning: We use scanning to find a fact or a piece of important information without having to read everything.

8. Summarizing: For the reader to summarize he most have the minimum idea of what he just read.

9. Recognizing story structure:This helps the reader to identify the categories of content

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