READING STRATEGIES

RECOMMENDED LITERATURE/READING STRATEGIES

Pre-Reading Strategies:

ü  Relating prior knowledge and personal experience to new texts

ü  Free writing about an important idea/theme/essential question in the work

ü  Webbing an important idea/theme/word (semantic mapping)

ü  Completing an anticipation guide

ü  Discussing a related work, theme, idea

ü  Completing and discussing questionnaires in cooperative groups

ü  Filling in the first two columns of a K-W-L chart

ü  Assessing what the student already knows about the topic

ü  Listing predictions

ü  Setting purposes for reading (perhaps with a mini-lesson introducing a new concept, term, or strategy)

ü  Analyzing the title and/or illustrations

ü  Reviewing the footnotes, headings, and/or other peripherals

ü  Creating story impressions

During-Reading Strategies:

ü  Maintaining reader response journals

ü  Using fix-up strategies (i.e. re-reading, reading ahead, using context clues)

ü  Creating and completing literature maps

ü  Summarizing at critical points

ü  Assessing predictions

ü  Visualizing and verbalizing what they are imagining

ü  Engaging in the think-aloud technique

ü  Creating questions

ü  Making inferences

ü  Recognizing cause and effect

ü  Distinguishing fact from opinion

ü  Using resources to address difficult and pertinent vocabulary

ü  Participating in a guided reading

ü  Constructing a plot line

ü  Sequencing the main events in the work

ü  Completing meaningful learning guides or interactive reading guides

ü  Answering text/teacher questions

ü  Determining a main idea and/or key literary elements

Post-Reading Strategies:

ü  Re-visiting one or more of the pre-reading and/or during-reading strategies

ü  Sharing, discussing, evaluating their reader response entries orally

ü  Participating in student-centered discussions

ü  Completing Venn diagrams to compare and contrast

ü  Filling in the last column of a K-W-L chart

ü  Completing a book chart comparing two or more works, themes, conflicts, symbols

ü  Summarizing and paraphrasing

ü  Outlining the main idea, supporting details, and/or key literary elements

ü  Rewriting the work from another point of view, in a different tone, or in another setting or genre

ü  Debating whether or not the author attained his or her purpose

ü  Imitating the author’s style in an original student-written work

ü  Writing a sequel or a new ending

ü  Sending a letter to the author

ü  Writing a book review

ü  Completing essay tests

ü  Setting a different purpose and re-reading the work

ü  Dramatizing a scene from the work

ü  Interviewing the main character

ü  Creating a related work of art, a musical composition, dance, or other project

ü  Engaging in further reading/research

ü  Presenting an interpretative reading of a portion of the work

ü  Rewriting the story for a younger audience

ü  Participating in a related mock trial