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Reading Strategies
- strategies used to decode unfamiliar words
- strategies for comprehension
- strategies that increase fluency
- strategies for organizing to remember or use
Strategies for comprehension
- question to identify a purpose for reading
- predict/verify: form a tentative hypothesis and read on to see if you are correct DRTA is a sample instructional technique.
- question to monitor ongoing understanding or confusions
- question to extend thinking - to wonder
- question to clarify
- question as a basis for making inferences
- to real life experiences. Make personal connections; get into the story emotionally.
- to prior knowledge. The Pre-Reading Plan (PReP: Langer, 1981) is a technique to help teachers assess student prior knowledge. PDF file requires Acrobat.
- to the big picture; generalization; concept
- to other texts and themes in other texts
- (when you don’t understand something) ignore that part of text and read on
- use picture cues
- reread sentence, paragraph, section
- adjust way of reading to type of text & purpose for reading
- use story structure or textbook organizational aids
- suspend judgment and look ahead for clarification
- monitor; metacognition (think aloud while reading)
- infer through preview of all types of available clues for the text
- infer feelings of characters & people
- infer big ideas, theme (differentiate between plot and theme)
- infer from visualization
- infer from questioning