Reading Strategies

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This strategy helps us come up with a mental image of what we read.

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Visualizing

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

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Draw out what we picture

Front

This strategy helps us build a bridge from what we already know to what we read.

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Connecting

Front

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

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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

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One technique we can practice to help us with questioning is

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Ask questions about the author's purpose

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

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Inferring

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This strategy involves choosing between what are important details and what are minor details.

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Determining importance

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One technique we can practice to help us with determining importance is

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Skim through text for details about the plot

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This strategy involves learning the definitions to words we don't already know.

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Building vocabulary