Reading Strategies

Imagine you're reading a novel and you start picturing the characters and settings in your mind to better understand the scene being described.

• Determining what's important

• Visualizing

• Making predictions

• Making an inference

Imagine you are reading a complex manual on how to assemble a computer. What strategy involves using all of the reading strategies to ensure you understand the instructions?

• Summarizing

• Visualizing

• Analyzing Author's Craft

• Monitoring and Clarifying

Noting wonderings while reading a novel.

• Analyzing Author's Craft

• Making Predictions

• Making Inferences

• Asking Questions

While reading a novel, making educated guesses about the fate of the main character based on the events described.

• Summarizing and Synthesizing the plot

• Making Predictions about the storyline

• Asking Questions about the character's decisions

• Making Connections to similar stories

Examining how a novelist employs descriptive language to portray a vivid scene in a story.

• Analyzing Author's Craft

• Making Connections

• Evaluating

• Monitoring and Clarifying

While reading a newspaper article about environmental conservation, identifying the main arguments of the author and distinguishing them from the examples provided.

• Evaluating

• Making Inferences

• Visualizing

• Determining What's Important

Briefly explaining the beginning, middle and the end of a popular novel.

• Asking Questions

• Summarizing and Synthesizing

• Making Connections

• Evaluating

Relating what you are reading about the effects of global warming on polar bears to the world, yourself or other texts

• Making Predictions

• Making Connections

• Asking Questions

• Visualizing

When you observe a group of friends interacting and, based on their non-verbal cues and your own experiences, deduce who might be having a bad day without them explicitly saying so. "Reading between the lines."

• Making Inferences

• Making Predictions

• Evaluating

• Making Connections

While reading a novel, you come across a character who doesn't explicitly state their feelings but shows it through actions. What is this process called?

• Making Inferences

• Determining What's Important

• Analyzing Author's Craft

• Evaluating