Reading Strategies

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

• Making an inference

• Visualizing

• Making predictions

You use this strategy when you realize you do not know who the characters are.

• Asking Questions

• Visualizing

• Fix-Up Strategies

This strategy consists of thin or thick.

• Making Connections

• Asking Questions

• Background Knowledge

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

• Visualizing

• Making Predictions

• Making Connections

We use this to build on new knowledge while reading.

• Background Knowledge

• Making Connections

• Fix-Up Strategies

When we need to read between the lines to know what they author is trying to tell us.

• Background Knowledge

• Making Inferences

• Visualizing

An example of this is text-to-self.

• Asking Questions

• Making Connections

• Visualizing

A connection to another text you have read.

• Text-to-Self

• Text-to-Text

• Text-to-Media

When you use text evidence and your background knowledge to make a guess about what is happening and characters in the story. "Reading between the lines."

• Making Inferences

• Making Predictions

• Making Connections

When you play a movie in your head.

• Making Inferences

• Asking Questions

• Visualizing