Reading Strategies

Creating pictures in your mind while you read. You can include sights, sounds, and smells. This helps you recall events and better understand the text.

• activate prior knowledge

• visualize

• make predictions

• use context clues

Restating or rewriting the meaning of text in your own words and using different words from those used in the original text.

• summarize

• context clues

• infer

• make connections

Using information from the text, such as the titles, headings, pictures, and diagrams to anticipate, or guess what will happen next.

• predict

• summarize

• monitor and clarify

• use context clues

Using details and evidence from the text, along with their own experiences, to help figure out what is not directly, or explicitly written. Reading between the lines.

• activate prior knowledge

• monitor and clarify

• predict

• infer

What you already know from school, personal, and cultural experience.

• make connections

• make predictions

• visualize

• activate prior knowledge

There are three types of these: text-to-text, text-to-self, text-to-world

• infer

• use context clues

• make connections

• visualize

Hints in the text that tell you what unfamiliar words means. These can be examples, inferences, definitions, antonyms, or synonyms.

• infer

• use context clues

• visualize

• monitor and clarify

This helps readers to recognize when they don't understand parts of a text and to take necessary steps to restore or improve meaning.

• monitor and clarify

• use context clues

• infer

• predict