Teaching Tip #42

Teacherscribe’s Teaching Tip #42

Reading is more than “decoding.”

Here are some quick strategies that can help struggling readers with comprehending our texts –

·      visualize (make mental pictures or sensory images)

·      connext (to connect to one’s own experience, to events in the world, to other feelings)

·      question (to actively wonder, to surface uncertainties, to interrogate the text).

·      Infer (to predict, hypothesize, interpret, draw conclusions).

·      Evaluate (to determine importance, make judgments)

·      Analyze (to notice text structures, author’s craft, vocab, purpose, theme, point of view)

·      Recall (to retell, summarize, remember information)

·      Self-monitor (to recognize and act on confusion, uncertainty, attention problems)