Active Reading Strategies for Comprehension

Active Reading Strategies for Comprehension
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Learn how to make the invisible visible, predict outcomes, and visualize details through active reading strategies that enhance comprehension.

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1. Active Reading Strategies Active Reading Strategies Making the Invisible Making the Invisible Visible Visible

2. Predict Predict Questions: Questions: What will happen next? What will happen next? How will it end? How will it end? Does the author give Does the author give clues? (foreshadow) clues? (foreshadow) Sentence starters: I predict that . . . because . . . In the next chapter or section . . .

3. Visualize Questions: What do the characters look like? Sound like? Where does the story take place? (setting) Can I see the events playing out? Can I see details? Sentence starters: When I try to imagine . . . I see . . .

4. Connect Connect Questions: Questions: What do I already know? (prior knowledge) What do I already know? (prior knowledge) How are my experiences similar to the experiences described in the text? How are my experiences similar to the experiences described in the text? Does anything in the text remind me of other stories I have read? Movies I have seen? Ideas I have heard about? Does anything in the text remind me of other stories I have read? Movies I have seen? Ideas I have heard about? Sentence starters: When . . . it reminds me of . . . because . . . I learned about . . . in . . .

5. Question Question Questions: Questions: Who? Who? What? What? Where? Where? When? When? Why? Why? How? How? Sentence starters: Sentence starters: I wonder why . . .? I wonder why . . .? I wonder what it means when . . .? I wonder what it means when . . .? Why does/doesn’t Why does/doesn’t the character . . . ? the character . . . ? How is concept/idea related to . . . How is concept/idea related to . . .

6. Clarify Clarify Questions: Questions: Have I discovered answers to my questions? Have I discovered answers to my questions? Do I understand something that I did not understand previously? Do I understand something that I did not understand previously? Do I need to reread? Do I need to reread? Do I need to access outside sources and do some research? Do I need to access outside sources and do some research? Sentence starters: Sentence starters: This what I think is This what I think is really going on here . . . really going on here . . . What this really means is . . . What this really means is . . . I now know why . . . I now know why . . . I researched . . . and it I researched . . . and it help me understand . . . help me understand . . .

7. Evaluate Evaluate Questions: Questions: Do I have any opinions? Do I have any opinions? What is important? What is important? Why is it important? Why is it important? What is the “big picture”? What is the “big picture”? Sentence starters: Sentence starters: In my opinion . . . In my opinion . . . I think . . . I think . . . I felt . . . when . . . I felt . . . when . . . . . . is important because . . . . . . is important because . . .

8. What is my job? What is my job? Read for 30 minutes each day Read for 30 minutes each day Read for 1.5 hours on the weekends Read for 1.5 hours on the weekends (incl. Fri.) (incl. Fri.) Complete a Reading Log entry for each reading session Complete a Reading Log entry for each reading session Demonstrate use of at least 3 strategies per reading session (vary strategies) Demonstrate use of at least 3 strategies per reading session (vary strategies) Include date, title of book, pages read, amount of time for session, responses, parent signature Include date, title of book, pages read, amount of time for session, responses, parent signature (get signature Sun. night for the previous week’s work—write on one side of paper only) (get signature Sun. night for the previous week’s work—write on one side of paper only)

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