These are the things that good readers do while they are reading. Sometimes they are not even aware they are doing them. Most good readers use many, if not all, strategies every time they read.
They use these strategies whenever they are reading text, even in Math, Social Studies, and Science.
1. Monitoring for Meaning - good readers know when what they are reading is not making sense. They use fix-up strategies to take care of this. Some fix-up strategies are: figuring out the meaning of an unknown word, rereading, reading slower, or leaving tracks of your thinking on sticky notes or a notebook. This strategy is important when you are reading independently.
2. Questioning - good readers wonder about things as they read. They ask themselves questions as they are moving through a piece of text. Some questions get answered, so they create new questions. Some questions never get answered - we call them lingering questions. This strategy can make you want to read on in a piece of text.
3. Creating Sensory Images - good readers make a movie in their heads as they read. They visualize what is happening. Sometimes if the writing is descriptive enough they can even 'hear,' feel, taste, or smell what is going on in the text. This strategy can help you understand exactly what is going on while reading a page of text.
4. Inferring - good readers know there is more to reading than what is on the page. They predict what will happen. They 'read between the lines' to figure out things that aren't said directly on the page. Sometimes inferences are wrong, so good readers revise them. This strategy helps you realize that you need to think deeply about what you read.
5. Schema - good readers think about what background knowledge they have about the text before they start reading. They make connections to themselves, other texts, and the world. They can explain how these connections help them. This strategy helps you connect new learning to things you already know.
6. Determining Importance - good readers know what to focus on as they read. They look for text features in nonfiction books to help them. When reading fiction, good readers look for major details that are important to remember. This strategy helps when you have to summarize something.
7. Synthesizing - good readers realize when they put more than one strategy together when they are reading. They understand things after reading a text that they did not know before. Using this strategy shows that you understand the reading strategies and are aware of how you are using them to help you understand.
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