Reading Strategies

Reading Strategies

 Our Reading Series works with 5 main reading strategies.   

Each story focuses on one main strategy

(which is tested at the end of the selection). 

You will receive a Reading Newsletter at the beginning of a selection

to inform you as to what strategy

we will use for the selection.

Please use all 5 strategies with your child

as you practice at home.

Predict/Infer

&   Think about the title, the illustrations, and what you have read so far.

&   Tell what you think will happen next or what you will learn.

&   Try to figure out things that the author does not say directly.

Question

&   Ask questions about the story that you could answer while you are reading or after you have finished reading.

Monitor/Clarify

&   Ask yourself if what you are reading makes sense or if you are learning what you want to learn.

&   If you don’t understand something, reread, read ahead, or use the illustrations.

Summarize

&   Think about the MAIN IDEAS or the important parts of the story.

&   Tell IN YOU OWN WORDS the important things you have read.

Evaluate

Ask yourself:

&   How do I feel about what I have read?

&   Do I agree or disagree with it?

&   Am I learning what I wanted to know?

&   How good a job has the author done?

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