Reading Strategies

Front

Making pictures in your mind as you read to help you "see" what you are reading.

Back

Visualizing

Front

Making educated guesses about what will happen next in the text.

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Making Predictions

Front

Identifying main ideas and differentiating them from supporting details.

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Determining What's Important

Front

Briefly explaining the beginning, middle and the end of text.

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Summaring and Synthesizing

Front

Relating what you are reading to the world, yourself or other texts

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Making Connections

Front

One technique we can practice to help us with visualizing is to:

• Look up words we are unsure of
• Make an assumption about what we read
• Connect what we read to our lives
• Draw out what we picture

Back

Draw out what we picture

Front

One technique we can practice to help us with connecting is to:

• Look up words we are unsure of
• Make an assumption about what we read
• Connect what we read to our current lives
• Draw out what we picture

Back

Connect what we read to our current lives

Front

This strategy involves asking good questions to keep us more mentally engaged with what we read.

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Questioning

Front

This strategy involves taking clues from the text to think ahead or make a judgement.

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Inferring

Front

What technique can help us determine importance?

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Skim through text for details about the plot