Reading Strategies

Front 1

Visualizing

Back 1

Using the 5 senses to create a mind movie of what

Front 2

Compare and Contrast

Back 2

Compare- tell how thing 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 the imformation you have learned from the reading to make your own assumptions about the the outcome of a situation

Front 5

Recognizing Author's Purpose

Back 5

Why did the author write it

* To imform

* To entertain

* To persuade

Front 6

Making Inference

Back 6

Giving a logical guess based on facts

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

Clarifying

Back 8

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

Front 9

Making Predictions

Back 9

Using the text to guess what will happen next.

Front 10

Using Context Clues

Back 10

Using words surrounding an unknown word to determine it's meaning.

Front 11

Questioning

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 remebering

Front 13

Recognizing Text Structure

Back 13

Knowing how a peice of text is organized helps the reader make better sense of the imformation