Getting Acquainted with Reading Strategies
Consider how you use each of these when reading the Internet.
Getting Acquainted with Reading Strategies | |
Noticing Your Own Thinking ( Listening to your Inner Voices) When you are “reading,” you should notice whether or not you are really reading and understanding. I f you couldn’t tell someone about what you just read, you need to apply one or more of the strategies below. ____________________________________________________ | |
Activating and Adding to Your Schema (Background Knowledge) Your schema is your background knowledge and experience and how they’re linked together. The more you have, the better you are able to understand and remember the new things you learn. | |
Questioning Strategic readers ask questions before, during, and after reading. | |
Making Connections Using schema, the sum total of your background knowledge and experience, helps you make connections. There are three main kinds of connections readers make: s Text-to-Self s Text-to-Text s Text-to-World | |
Predicting Predicting is using information from the text and your own experiences to make guesses about s what the author will say next s what will happen next show things will turn out | |
Visualizing Visualizing is the ability to make words on a page real and concrete. It is making a movie in your head. | |
Making Inferences (Reading Between the Lines) Inferring allows readers to make their own discoveries without the direct comment of the author. Clues in the text + Your background knowledge and experience = Inference | |
Determining Importance and Summarizing What is important in a text depends on your purpose for reading it. Strategic readers can identify the main idea or tell what the text is mostly about. Determining importance includes finding the main idea and the major supporting details for that idea. You have to determine importance to summarize. | |
Recognizing Text Patterns (Internal Text Structures) Text Patterns are the ways the authors organize their writing. They might organize the information as SEQUENCE, CHRONOLOGICAL, LIST, COMPARE AND CONTRAST, CAUSE AND EFFECT, QUESTION/ANSWER, PROBLEM/SOLUTION, or DESCRIPTION, or a combination of patterns. | |
Using External Text Features External Text Features are helps that aren’t just the main body of writing. They include headings, subheadings, pictures, captions, bolded words, graphs, charts, tables of contents, sidebars, annotations, italics, etc. | |
Fix-Up Strategies include other things you can do when you’re not comprehending what you read. Fix-up strategies include rereading (in a different way), reading ahead, reading aloud, adjusting your reading rate, dealing with problem words, checking other resources, and asking for help. To deal with a problem (unknown) word, you can check it for familiar word parts (prefixes, suffixes, roots, small words), use context clues, or look it up. | |
last updated by C. Dorsey 8-18-10
