The document discusses essential reading strategies that enhance comprehension and engagement, focusing on the importance of metacognition. It outlines seven key strategies: making connections, asking questions, determining importance, inferring and predicting, visualizing, synthesizing, and using fix-up strategies. Ultimately, these strategies help readers think critically and deeply about texts, improving their overall reading skills.

1. READING
READING
STRATEGIES
STRATEGIES
Thinking About How You Read
Thinking About How You Read

2. Metacognition:
Metacognition:
Thinking About How You Think
Thinking About How You Think
Before you can truly improve your
Before you can truly improve your
reading skills, you need to
reading skills, you need to
understand what happens in good
understand what happens in good
readers’ minds while they read.
readers’ minds while they read.
You may even do these things
You may even do these things
already. You just don’t know it…
already. You just don’t know it…
yet.
yet.

3. More About Metacognition
More About Metacognition
Good readers have developed good habits
Good readers have developed good habits
when they read. We call these habits
when they read. We call these habits
strategies. Strategies help readers
strategies. Strategies help readers
understand, connect to, and determine the
understand, connect to, and determine the
importance of what they are reading. They
importance of what they are reading. They
also visualize, ask questions about, and
also visualize, ask questions about, and
read between the lines of what they read.
read between the lines of what they read.

4. The Reading Strategies
The Reading Strategies
There are seven reading strategies.
There are seven reading strategies.
Make Connections
Make Connections
Ask Questions
Ask Questions
Determine Importance
Determine Importance
Infer and Predict
Infer and Predict
Visualize
Visualize
Synthesize
Synthesize
Use Fix Up Strategies
Use Fix Up Strategies

5. Make Connections
Make Connections
Text to Self (similar events in your life)
Text to Self (similar events in your life)
Text to Text (books, movies, T.V., etc.)
Text to Text (books, movies, T.V., etc.)
Text to Life (real world events)
Text to Life (real world events)

6. Make Connections
Make Connections
Ask Yourself:
Ask Yourself:
What do I already know about this?
What do I already know about this?
Has anything similar ever happened
Has anything similar ever happened
to me?
to me?
How would I feel if this happened to
How would I feel if this happened to
me?
me?
Can I relate to the characters?
Can I relate to the characters?
Does this story remind me of
Does this story remind me of
something?
something?

7. Make Connections
Make Connections
CONNECT yourself to the text!
CONNECT yourself to the text!
Go passed the
Go passed the OBVIOUS!
OBVIOUS!

8. Ask Questions
Ask Questions
What don’t you get?
What don’t you get?
What do you get?
What do you get?
What words don’t you
What words don’t you
understand?
understand?
What other questions do
What other questions do
you have?
you have?
What do you wonder
What do you wonder
about as you read?
about as you read?

9. Why Ask Questions?
Why Ask Questions?
Asking questions helps keep you
Asking questions helps keep you
focused on the text.
focused on the text.
If your mind wanders, you will not
If your mind wanders, you will not
understand. Then you will be bored.
understand. Then you will be bored.
If you run into problems, things you
If you run into problems, things you
just don’t understand, then you can
just don’t understand, then you can
check yourself with a question.
check yourself with a question.

10. Determine Importance
Determine Importance
Pick and choose which details
Pick and choose which details
are the most important to
are the most important to
remember.
remember.
•Think about what a teacher
Think about what a teacher
might ask on a test.
might ask on a test.
•Think about what the author
Think about what the author
hints might be important later on.
hints might be important later on.

11. Why Determine Importance?
Why Determine Importance?
Anything you read contains a lot of
Anything you read contains a lot of
information. You cannot remember
information. You cannot remember
everything. By deciding what is
everything. By deciding what is
important, you don’t have to
important, you don’t have to
remember everything. You can
remember everything. You can
prioritize the information you need
prioritize the information you need
in order to understand.
in order to understand.

12. Infer and Predict
Infer and Predict
Good readers are like
Good readers are like
detectives.
detectives.
They use clues to determine
They use clues to determine
what is happening in a story.
what is happening in a story.
This is called INFERENCE!
This is called INFERENCE!

13. Infer and Predict
Infer and Predict
Good readers also make
Good readers also make
educated guesses about what
educated guesses about what
may happen later in the
may happen later in the
story.
story.
They use the author’s hints to
They use the author’s hints to
PREDICT what will most
PREDICT what will most
likely occur.
likely occur.

14. Infer and Predict
Infer and Predict
Ask Yourself:
Ask Yourself:
What isn’t stated that I have
What isn’t stated that I have
figured out?
figured out?
What do I predict will happen?
What do I predict will happen?
Why do I think so?
Why do I think so?

15. Infer and Predict
Infer and Predict
REMEMBER:
REMEMBER:
KNOWLEDGE + TEXT = INFERENCE
KNOWLEDGE + TEXT = INFERENCE

16. Visualize
Visualize
 Picture in your mind the images the
Picture in your mind the images the
author creates with his/her words.
author creates with his/her words.
 Pay close attention to sensory details.
Pay close attention to sensory details.
For example, if you were there, what
For example, if you were there, what
would you SEE, HEAR, SMELL, TASTE,
would you SEE, HEAR, SMELL, TASTE,
TOUCH, FEEL?
TOUCH, FEEL?

17. Why Visualize?
Why Visualize?
 If you don’t picture the
If you don’t picture the
events of the story, you will
events of the story, you will
get bored.
get bored.
 The author’s job is to paint
The author’s job is to paint
pictures in the reader’s mind.
pictures in the reader’s mind.
The reader’s job is to visualize
The reader’s job is to visualize
what the author describes.
what the author describes.
 Why not?
Why not?

18. Synthesize
Synthesize
Synthesize is a fancy way of saying
Synthesize is a fancy way of saying
that you must bring everything
that you must bring everything
together in the end. In other words,
together in the end. In other words,
what is the meaning of what you are
what is the meaning of what you are
reading?
reading?

19. Synthesize
Synthesize
Ask Yourself:
Ask Yourself:
o What does it all mean?
What does it all mean?
oWhat’s the big idea?
What’s the big idea?
o Are there questions still left
Are there questions still left
unanswered?
unanswered?
o What are the lessons I should learn?
What are the lessons I should learn?
o What do I think about this book?
What do I think about this book?

20. Use Fix Up Strategies
Use Fix Up Strategies
Make sure you are understanding
Make sure you are understanding
what you are reading. When you run
what you are reading. When you run
into trouble, (you just don’t get it), use
into trouble, (you just don’t get it), use
little correction strategies to help you
little correction strategies to help you
figure out what went wrong. We call
figure out what went wrong. We call
these methods FIX UP STRATEGIES.
these methods FIX UP STRATEGIES.

21. Use Fix Up Strategies
Use Fix Up Strategies
Here are some examples of Fix Up
Here are some examples of Fix Up
Strategies:
Strategies:
☻ Re-read
Re-read
☻Underline
Underline
☻Use a Dictionary
Use a Dictionary
☻Read Aloud
Read Aloud
☻Ask for Help
Ask for Help

22. Why Use Strategies?
Why Use Strategies?
 Strategies create a plan of attack. Then
Strategies create a plan of attack. Then
you can solve any reading problems
you can solve any reading problems
yourself.
yourself.
 Strategies help you learn
Strategies help you learn HOW
HOW to
to
understand. If you know
understand. If you know HOW
HOW to
to
understand, then you are more likely
understand, then you are more likely
TO
TO understand.
understand.
 Strategies help you realize
Strategies help you realize HOW
HOW you
you
are thinking so that you can think more
are thinking so that you can think more
deeply and more consciously.
deeply and more consciously.

24. From
From Finding Nemo
Finding Nemo -- Pixar
-- Pixar

25. Why Use Strategies?
Why Use Strategies?
REMEMBER:
REMEMBER:
You may be using some or all of
You may be using some or all of
these strategies already. You just
these strategies already. You just
may not know it. However, as you
may not know it. However, as you
learn to read more complicated
learn to read more complicated
materials, you WILL NEED to use
materials, you WILL NEED to use
these strategies purposefully.
these strategies purposefully.
SO PRACTICE!
SO PRACTICE!