Reading Strategies

text-to-text, text-to-self, text-to-world

• visualize

• make connections

• make inferences

• synthesize

telling/writing only main ideas

• plan

• ask questions

• monitor

• summarize

reread or check for understanding

• summarize

• plan

• monitor

• visualize

preview, set a purpose, and predict what will happen

• ask questions

• synthesize

• plan

• make inferences

do this to learn new information or clarify

• ask questions

• monitor

• summarize

• plan

imagine places, smells, sounds, taste, and touch

• synthesize

• monitor

• visualize

• summarize

figure out what the author means; read between the lines

• make inferences

• visualize

• ask questions

• synthesize

putting ideas and information together, making own opinions and conclusions

• make inferences

• monitor

• synthesize

• summarize