Strategy Readers Gain Control Over:
Select Books Choosing readable books that can support growth in fluency,
word knowledge, and comprehension.
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Make Personal Relating their experiences and knowledge to information
Connections read in the text.
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Visualize Comprehension when they create mental pictures of
information they understand.
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Predict/Support Engaging eith the text, setting purposes, and finding
evidence that supports predictions.
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Confirm/Adjust Confirming or adjusting predictions while they read
and collect more data.
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Identify Knowing what they don't understand while reading.
Confusing Parts Pinpointing parts that don't make sense is the step
that precedes applying a helpful strategy.
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Pause, then Retell Coping with the informatioin in books by evaluating
or Summarize whether they recall details.
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Self-Question Setting purposes and creating interest while they read
by posing questions, then reading to explore answers
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Self-Monitor Knowing what is and is not understood. Seeking help when
they can not solve a problem independently.
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Understand Text Accessing what they already know about text structures
Structures (Genres) to support the meaning-making process.
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Synthesize Summarizing information from large sections of a text.
In their own words, as they read, students create
a topic sentence for smal sections of text and
list the important details.
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Determine What's Selecting the important information in a chapter or section.
Important Knowing what's relevant and what's irrelevant is
crucial to comprehension and reading for a purpose.
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