Reading Comprehension:

STRATEGIES

 (any text)

Good readers:

--activate prior knowledge (schema)


--determine the most important ideas/themes


--ask questions of themselves, the author, and the text


--create visual/sensory images (use imagination)


--make inferences


--retell/synthesize what they have read

--use "fix-up" strategies when comprehension breaks down

-Grapho-Phonic System:

~sound out words (beginning/ending sounds)
~point and slide
~ask "do the Letters match the sounds"?

-Lexical System:                     

~look for clues in surrounding text
~look for prefixes, suffixes, root words

-Syntactic System:                  

~read-aloud (does it sound right?)
~read the word faster or slower
~exaggerate punctuation clues

-Semantic System:                  

~substitute another word that would make sense
~reread or read ahead

-Schematic System:                

~ask "what do I already know?" (about text/author)
~imagine the seem

-Pragmatic System:                

~ask "what do I need to know?"
~ask "what is important?"
~discuss text with another person