Planning, Monitoring, Asking Questions, Visualizing

Skimming (taking a quick look at) the story before I read it

• planning

• visualizing

• asking questions

• monitoring

picturing what I am reading (sights, smells, sounds, touch)

• planning

• monitoring

• asking questions

• visualizing

Who? What? Where? When? Why? How?

• planning

• monitoring

• asking questions

• visualizing

making a "movie in my mind"

• planning

• monitoring

• asking questions

• visualizing

this strategy is done BEFORE reading the text

• planning

• monitoring

• asking questions

• visualizing

this strategy includes making predictions (guesses about the text)

• planning

• monitoring

• asking questions

• visualizing

If I do this strategy, I am checking to see if I understand what I'm reading. I might pause and reread or find out what a word means.

• planning

• monitoring

• asking questions

• visualizing

When I do this, I can sometimes find what I am looking for in the text. Other times I am just wondering about things I have read.

• planning

• monitoring

• asking questions

• visualizing

When I do this, I look at things like the title, headings, pictures, and bold print words.

• planning

• monitoring

• asking questions

• visualizing

I could draw a picture when using this strategy.

• planning

• monitoring

• asking questions

• visualizing