Active Reading Strategies

 

What is the purpose for using active reading strategies?

• to complete your homework

• because teachers like when you take your time

• to have deeper and more effective understanding of your reading

• to keep you busy during class time

To find a word that’s new & predict the meaning of the word using clues from the words around it

• questioning

• visualizing

• contextual clues

• process of elimination

 

To create a picture in your mind based on facts and details from the text

• predict

• infer

• main idea

• visualize

To use facts from text, your own knowledge and experience to understand the text

• inference

• visualize

• emphatise

• predict

Readers engage with the text by asking questions about the text and the author's intentions, and then seek information to clarify and extend their thinking before, during and after reading.

• questioning

• main idea

• infer

• linking

The readers looks quickly through material to gain an overall view of text without reading everything.

• scanning

• emphatising

• close reading

• skimming

Who benefits from using active reading strategies?

• struggling readers & people who don't usually like to read

• middle school aged readers

• adult readers who enjoy reading

• all of the above

To use clues in text to decide what the text will be about, or what will happen next

• predict

• main idea

• evaluate

• infer

The readers looks through a text to locate specific information without reading everything, e.g. names, dates, illustrations, etc.

• scanning

• skimming

• close reading

• highlighting

 

Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text

• scanning

• skimming

• close reading

• highlighting