Reading Strategies

Front 1

Visualizing

Back 1

Using the 5 senses to create a mind movie of what you are reading

Front 2

Compare and Contrast

Back 2

Compare- tell how things are alike

Contrast- tell how things are different

Front 3

Elaborating

Back 3

Being able to further explain based on what you already know

Front 4

Drawing Conclusions

Back 4

Adding up the infomation you have learned from the reading to make your own assumptions about the outcome of a situation

Front 5

Recogniting Author's Purpose

Back 5

Why did the author write it?

*To inform

*To entertain

*To persuade

Front 6

Making Inferences

Back 6

Using prior knowledge to make an educated guess

Front 7

Making Connections

Back 7

When you make connections between something you already have prior knowledge of and the new knowledge from the text

Front 8

Clarifing

Back 8

Making the meaning of the text clearer by asking yourself questions, rereading, and/or restating the passage.

Front 9

Making Perdictions

Back 9

Using the text to guess what will happen next. Then the reader confirms or rejects the prediction as she/he reads.

Front 10

Using Context Clues

Back 10

Using words surrounding an unknown work to determine its meaning.

Front 11

Questions

Back 11

Questions with different purposes can be asked and answered before, during, and after reading.

Front 12

Summarizing

Back 12

Taking larger selections of text and reducing them to their key ideas or main points that are worth noting and remembering

Front 13

Recognizing Text Structure

Back 13

Knowing how a piece of text is organized helps the reader make better sense of the information