Reading Strategies

What is “looking for the main ideas and details”

• Purpose

• Determine Importance

• Making Connections

• Preview

What is “reading between the lines and looking for clues to understand the text?”

• Preview

• Purpose

• Make Inferences

• Making Connections

What is “scanning the text to look for headings, visuals and bold faced words?”

• Synthesize

• Determine Importance

• Purpose

• Preview

What is “making connections through other texts, your past or what is happening in the world?"

• Making Connections

• Preview

• Make Inferences

• Synthesize

What is “making connections to what is happening in the world?”

• Text-to-text

• Text-to-self

• Text-to-world

What is “a reason for doing something?”

• Purpose

• Preview

• Making Connections

• Synthesize

What is “making connections to other texts you have read?”

• Text-to-text

• Text-to-self

• Text-to-world

What is “imagining what the author is describing with the five senses?”

• Purpose

• Making Connections

• Visualize

• Determine Importance

What is "combining new ideas by drawing conclusions, making generalizations and comparing"?

• Make Inferences

• Synthesize

• Determine Importance

• Purpose

What is "making connections to your past?"

• Text-to-text

• Text-to-self

• Text-to-world