Reading Strategies
Predict - Determine what you think will happen in the text. Use the title, text, and illustrations to help you.
- What do you think will happen in the text?
- Before reading, use the title and the illustration to make predictions.
- During reading, stop and predict what you think will happen next.
- After reading, determine if you're predictions were correct.
Visualize - Create mental images of the characters, settings, and events in the text.
- Can you see the parts of the story in your mind?
- Organize the details in your mind.
- Make a mental movie.
Question - Stop and ask yourself questions to see if the text makes sense. Reread the text if you need more information.
- What question do you have about the text?
- Think about what else you want to know
- Question parts of the text that are unclear or do not make sense.
- Reread the text to find answers to your questions.
Connect - Think about what you already know about the text. Find ways to relate the text to yourself, other texts, and the world around you.
- What do you already know about the text?
- Connect the text to yourself.
- Connect the text with other things you have read .
- Connect the text to other people, things or ideas.
Identify - Determine the author's purpose. Find the important details, the main idea, and the themes of the text.
- What is the author's purpose?
- Determine which events of details are the most important?
- Identify the main idea and themes
Infer - Use clues in the text and your own knowledge to fill in the gaps and draw conclusions.
- What are the underlying messages of the text
- Fill in the gaps by combining what you know with what you have read.
- Draw conclusions.
Evaluate - Think about the text as a whole and form opinions about what you read.
- What do you think about the text?
- Evaluate all of the informations that you gathered.
- Think about the 'big picture''
- Form opinions about the text