Active Reading Strategies

USING DETAILS & FORESHADOWING TO TRY TO FIGURE OUT WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT

• predicting

• clarifying

• summarizing

• questioning

USING DETAILS TO FORM IMAGES IN YOUR MIND WHICH ALLOWS YOU TO SEE WHAT IS HAPPENING

• connecting

• visualizing

• clarifying

• evaluating

THINKING OF YOUR OWN EXPERIENCES SIMILAR TO THOSE IN A TEXT

• clarifying

• summarizing

• evaluating

• connecting

Thinking about the purpose of the text or certain events in the text and giving your opinion of the reading throughout and at the end

• evaluating

• clarifying

• questioning

• visualizing

PAUSING TO MAKE SURE YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT YOUR ARE READING/TO RETELL WHAT THE TEXT IS ABOUT

• clarifying

• summarizing

• predicting

• evaluating

Wondering about and/or search for reasons behind events, feelings, actions, opinions, motives, etc

• visualizing

• summarizing

• questioning

• connecting