• Reading Strategies

    1. Making Connections

    • Prior Knowledge

    • Text to Self  

    • Text to Text  

    • Text to World  

    2. Visualizing

    • Use your five senses to create a mental picture  

    • Visualize a movie in your mind when you read  

    3. Inferring (connecting what you know to what you read)

    • Make Predictions  

    • Draw Conclusions  

    4. Questioning (Who, What, When, Where, How)

    • Ask questions before you read  

    • Ask questions as you read  

    • Ask questions after you read  

    5. Determining Important Ideas

    • The Big Idea  

    • Author’s Purpose  

    6. Synthesizing

    • Retelling  

    • Summarizing 
    • Book Reviews