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Reading Strategies

Reading Strategies

1. Making Connections

• Prior Knowledge

• Text to Self  

• Text to Text  

• Text to World  

2. Visualizing

• Use your five senses to create a mental picture  

• Visualize a movie in your mind when you read  

3. Inferring (connecting what you know to what you read)

• Make Predictions  

• Draw Conclusions  

4. Questioning (Who, What, When, Where, How)

• Ask questions before you read  

• Ask questions as you read  

• Ask questions after you read  

5. Determining Important Ideas

• The Big Idea  

• Author’s Purpose  

6. Synthesizing

• Retelling  

• Summarizing 
• Book Reviews