Reading strategies are tools that help you better understand and remember what you read
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Take a look at the text features. |
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Think of what you already know about the text. |
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Make educated guesses using clues from the text. |
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Turn letters into sounds, then use these sounds to form words. |
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Turn what you read into pictures in your mind. |
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Ask questions about the text. |
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Take notes and write down comments while reading the text. |
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Find links between the text, yourself, other texts you have read and the world around you. |
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Visual tools to help sort, classify and order information. |
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Draw conclusions by combining clues from the text and your own knowledge. Reading between the lines. |
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Reformulate the main idea of a text in a short form, using your own words. |
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Skimming is looking for the main idea of a text. Scanning is looking for specific information in a text. |
