Reading Comprehension Strategies
Monitoring comprehension
Notice when the students do not understand
Self-correct when necessary for
understanding or for accuracy in oral
reading performance
Modelling
using a think-aloud strategy
Use all the cueing systems to
increase understanding
Evaluating
Make judgements before, during, and
after reading
Identify valid sources of information
Magazine critiques
Website analysis
My Graphic organizer for Reading Comprehension Strategies.
Use response journals to reflect on what they have just read
Synthesizing
Gather meaning from several texts
or genres to create a broader picture
of a topic
Synthesize new
information with existing knowledge
Summarizing
Use jot notes to record events in
a few words/sentences
Use oral and visual summaries,
concept maps, and discussions to
help students summarize texts
Summarize stories through retelling,
dramatizing, or illustrating stories
Finding important information
Use print features to locate
important information
Font changes
Headers
Punctuation
Set purposes for reading that will help
them determine what is important
Drawing inferences
Think beyond the text during teacher
read-alouds as they model how to
draw inferences during reading
Combine what they know with clues
from the text to make deductions
Predicting
Make prediction based on:
genre
author
familiar features
topic
Use anticipation guides
Integrate cueing systems
Making connections
Extend the meaning in text by connecting it to various elements
Topic
Setting
plot
Information
Character
Other texts
the world around them
Questioning
Ask "thin" questions
When
Who
Ask "thick"questions
What if
Why
Understand how questioning helps
them remember information
Ask questions that will help them
focus on the meaning
Visualizing
Use visual arts and drama
Guide the generation of
images
Activating prior knowledge
Use brainstorming activities to recall what they know
Bring background knowledge to the reading of a text
Determining a purpose for reading
adjust reading strategies and reading
rate to match the purpose for reading
Select purpose for reading text
Identify purpose for reading text
