Reading Strategies:
When tackling any text use the following Reading strategies to help you understand the text you are about to read. Remember to read the text in small sections two, or three pages at a time, or one chapter at a time. With each section, use each of the following strategies to help with your understanding of the text. Also, you should have a dictionary on had or you may look it at www.dictionary.com
Predict:
Clarify:
Question:
Summarize:
When tackling any text use the following Reading strategies to help you understand the text you are about to read. Remember to read the text in small sections two, or three pages at a time, or one chapter at a time. With each section, use each of the following strategies to help with your understanding of the text. Also, you should have a dictionary on had or you may look it at www.dictionary.com
Predict:
- Predict with the front and back cover. Study the title/headings.
- Flip through the text. Look at illustrations/drawings and skim the text.
- Think about what you already know about the topic.
- Fiction Prediction: I think this text will be about... because...I also think...
- Non-Fiction/Informational Text Prediction: I think we will learn about... because... I also think ...
Clarify:
- Reread the text, looking for tricky words to clarify.
- Find tricky parts - such as phrases, sentences, paragraphs, or visuals - to clarify
- Tell why words/parts are tricky and how to clarify
- Strategies Used: Reread, Read-on, Sound it out, Look for familiar parts (Prefix/ Root/Suffix), Break into parts (Chunks), Substitute another word, ask a friend or look it up in dictionary
Question:
- Reread text, looking for parts to turn into questions.
- Ask questions with who, what, when, where, why, how, what if, I wonder, or why do you think?
- Ask a question about the author, such as "Why did the author...?"
- For Fiction, ask a question about a Character, the Problem, or an Event.
- For Informational Text, ask question about the Headings, Photo, Picture, Caption, Sidebar, Maps
Summarize:
- Reread to summarize.
- Summarize using the main ideas and details in order
- Give summary in order, using first, next, then, and finally.
- For Fiction, include the Setting, Characters, Problem, Events, and Resolution.
- For Informational Text/Non-Fiction, include the Main Ideas, and Details. Look over the visuals to remember what you learned.