The following strategies can help you with your academic reading. Try them out and see what works for you. Then, turn them into habits.
Use These Strategies Consistently and Turn Them Into Habits!
Before reading, I: • Consider the purpose for reading (author’s, teacher’s, my own as a reader) • Skim material to read: look at titles, headings, visuals, captions • Think about what I already know about this topic (activate background knowledge) • Make predictions about what I think the text will tell me While reading, I: • Recall and revise (in memory, verbally, or writing) important details that relate to the author’s purpose and main idea • Can remember sequence (order of events) • Use pictures, graphs, and other visual aids to support understanding • Stop to visualize and summarize in order to organize my thoughts • Re-read parts I don’t understand • Let the text add to or change my background knowledge to allow new ideas • Use text and background knowledge to make inferences and predictions • Change my inferences and predictions based on new information in the text • Ask relevant questions to interact with the text • Actively seek to answer questions I have about the reading • Express opinions • Make connections to other texts, my life, classroom themes, or the world around me • Stop to look up a significant word I don’t know the meaning of • Use sentence context to try to figure out meaning of an unknown word • Use knowledge of prefixes, suffixes, and roots to figure out meaning of an unknown word After reading, I: • Think again about the purpose of the reading • Summarize (verbally or in writing) the main ideas of what I read • Reflect on how well I read and where my understanding might have broken down • Skim to try and address any gaps in understanding or unanswered questions Another strategy for your toolbelt: After a chunk of reading, don't forget your PIE!
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Think Along While You ReadDownload the bookmark below and think along while you read. Divide your reading into manageable chunks. Pause after each chunk and think along. The more you engage with your reading, the more you will understand.
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