The document provides strategies for prompting strategic reading in 3 sentences or less: The document outlines several strategies a reader can use when coming across an unknown word, including checking the picture for context clues, saying the first sound(s) of the word and rereading the sentence, looking for known word chunks, and checking if the word looks and sounds right in the sentence. It emphasizes that skilled readers use multiple strategies simultaneously rather than in isolation when working to understand what they are reading.