The document outlines 5 active reading strategies to improve comprehension: 1) Question what you read, 2) Visualize details from the text, 3) Predict what might happen next, 4) Connect information in the text to your own experiences and other knowledge, 5) Respond to the text by considering its themes, tone, conflicts, and symbols. Applying these strategies while reading can help readers engage more deeply with a text and gain more from what they read.

1. Active Reading Strategies
Improving Comprehension
Done by: Rawan Alomary 20052892
Reem Alnoaimi 20115111
Noora Alsubaie 20115109

2. Do you think about what
you read? As you read
silently, think about the 5
Reading Strategies:

3. 5 Active Reading
Strategies:
1.Question
2. Visualize
3. Predict
4. Connect
5. Respond

4. 1. Question what
you read

5. 1. Question what you
read
• What questions come to
your mind?

6. 1. Question what you
read
• Why do the characters
act as they do?

7. 1. Question what you
read
• Who tells the story?

8. 1. Question what you
read
• What causes events to
happen?

9. 1. Question what you
read
• When does the action
peak or climax?

10. 2. Visualize
Hmm…what
do I see?

11. 2. Visualize
• Create a picture in your
mind

12. 2. Visualize
• Make use of similes,
metaphors, allusions

13. 3. Predict
I predict…

14. 3. Predict
• What do you think will
happen? Prove it!

15. 3. Predict
• Foreshadowing (clues)

16. 3. Predict
• Red Herring (false clues)

17. 4. Connect

18. 4. Connect
• Text to Self
• Bring your own
experiences to the story.

19. 4. Connect
• Text to Text
• Make
connections
with other
literature,
movies, etc.

20. 4. Connect
• Text to Real
World
This reminds
me of…

21. 5. Respond

22. 5. Respond
• What does the story say
to you?

23. 5. Respond
• What is the mood of the
story?

24. 5. Respond
• What is the theme of
the story?
The BIG Picture

25. 5. Respond
• What are
the internal
and
external
conflicts?

26. 5. Respond
• What is the
tone of the
story?

27. 5. Respond
• What literal meanings are
in the story?

28. 5. Respond
• What symbols are in the
story?

29. As you read silently,
think about the 5
Reading Strategies:
1.Question
2. Visualize
3. Predict
4. Connect
5. Respond