The document outlines 15 reading strategies: previewing, activating prior knowledge, making predictions, visualizing, understanding sequence of events, identifying main ideas and details, asking questions, paraphrasing, drawing conclusions, predicting mood in poetry, comparing and contrasting, outlining, identifying cause and effect relationships, summarizing, and synthesizing. These strategies are designed to help readers better comprehend texts by activating background knowledge, making inferences, identifying key information, and integrating new knowledge with existing understanding.

1. 15 READING
STRATEGIES

2. 1. PREVIEWING
• Previewing a text means that you get an
idea of what it is about without reading
the main body of the text
• to help you decide whether a book or
journal is useful for your purpose; to get a
general sense of the article structure, to
help you locate relevant information;

3. 2. ACTIVATING PRIOR KNOWLEDGE
• Call it schema, relevant background
knowledge, prior knowledge, or just plain
experience, when students make
connections to the text they are reading,
their comprehension increases

4. 3. MAKING PREDICTION
• Making predictions is a strategy in which
readers use information from a text
(including titles, headings, pictures, and
diagrams) and their own personal
experiences to anticipate what they are
about to read (or what comes next).

5. 4. VISUALIZING
• Visualizing refers to our ability to create
pictures in our heads based on text we
read or words we hear. It is one of many
skills that makes reading comprehension
possible. This method is an ideal strategy
to teach to young students who are having
trouble reading.

6. 5. UNDERSTANDING SEQUENCE OF EVENTS
• Sequencing refers to the identification of the
components of a story — the beginning,
middle, and end — and also to the ability to
retell the events within a given text in the order
in which they occurred. The ability to sequence
events in a text is a key comprehension
strategy, especially for narrative texts.

7. 6. IDENTIFYING MAIN IDEA AND DETAILS
• The main idea of a paragraph is the primary point
or concept that the author wants to communicate to
the readers about the topic. Hence, in a paragraph,
when the main idea is stated directly, it is expressed
in what is called the topic sentence. It gives the
overarching idea of what the paragraph is about
and is supported by the details in subsequent
sentences in the paragraph.

8. 7. ASKING QUESTIONS
• Asking questions is a comprehension strategy that
helps students clarify and comprehend what they
are reading.

9. 8. PARAPHRASING
• Paraphrasing is another way of presenting ideas
from source material in your own words, but without
the condensing that happens in a summary. Instead,
paraphrases stay approximately the same length as
the original source material being paraphrased.

10. 9. DRAWING CONCLUSIONS
• Drawing conclusions is using information that is
implied or inferred to make meaning out of what is
not clearly stated. Writers give readers hints or
clues that help them read between the lines, since
not everything is explicitly stated or spelled out all
the time.

11. 10. PREDICTING MOOD IN POETRY
• Poetry has the power to evoke emotions and
feelings in its readers and audience members, if it is
read out loud. These emotions and feelings help
establish a certain atmosphere or mood. The writer
of the poem creates the mood using a number of
elements such as setting, tone and theme. To define
the mood of a poem, the reader should analyze
how these different elements interact and what
feeling or atmosphere they evoke.

12. 11. COMPARING AND CONTRASTING
• Compare, in relation to reading, refers to the
process of identifying the similarities and
differences between two things. On the other hand,
Contrast refers to identifying only the differences
between two things.

13. 12. OUTLINING
• This can be used as a preliminary to summarizing.
Outlining allows you to identify the basic structure of
a text and the main ideas of the text. In an outline
you are listing the main ideas and supporting
evidence of a text. It is especially important to be
able to distinguish between the two. Use your own
words when outlining a text

14. 13. CAUSE AND EFFECT
• The cause and effect model allows students to
understand the relationship between a cause(s) that
results in an effect(s). This literacy tool can be used
in a variety of subjects to help students comprehend
when actions and reactions occur.

15. 14. SUMMARIZING
• summarizing is when we take large selections of text
and reduce them, making sure to include the main
points and the general idea of the article
• summarizing is when we take large selections of text
and reduce them, making sure to include the main
points and the general idea of the article

16. 15. SYTHESIZING
• Synthesizing occurs when a students merges new
information with prior knowledge to form a new idea,
perspective, or opinion.
• Synthesizing aids reading comprehension because it
requires students to internalize new information into their
own words and also combine the information with their
prior knowledge. This process helps students to remember
the information and be able to transfer it to new situations