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Reading Strategies
Reading Strategies
Prior Knowledge
o What do you already know about what you are reading? What words come to mind?
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Questioning
o What do you want to know about the facts in the passage? (This is more than definitions of words)
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Visualize
o What images did you think about?
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Inference
o What guesses/assumptions can you make about what you read?
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Synthesize
o Summarize what you read.
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Predict
o What will happen next?
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Evaluate
o Make comparisons. Look at similarities and differences. What was meaningful?
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