Reading Strategies—Questioning

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English Language Arts

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Questioning is asking yourself questions about the text and its meaning.

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When to do it

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Reading intention

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Here are some examples of general questions.

To ask before reading the text.	Purpose
Why are you reading this text?	Reading purpose—The reason for reading the text influences what you get out of the reading experience.
What are the main features?	Previewing
What type of text is it?	Text type—The reason for using a specific text type reflects its purpose.
What is the text going to be about?	Prediction—Making an educated guess after previewing.
Who is the author?	Prediction—Predicting topics, genres, style, voice, themes… according to known information on the author.
What do you expect to learn from the text?	Prediction—Expectations according to text type, genre, themes, subject, author’s previous works…
What do you know about this topic?	Activating prior knowledge—Preparing to make connections to familiar information on the topic

To ask while reading the text.	Purpose
What is the meaning of…?	Comprehension
Which parts are more difficult to understand?	Identifying elements that need more attention
What is the author saying?	Inferring—Reading between the lines for a deeper meaning
Why did the author use this technique or tool?	Author’s purpose
How does it compare to other texts of the same type?	Compare and contrast

To ask after reading the text.	Purpose
What did you learn from the text?	Comprehension
How did you feel?	Reflection—Reason for the feelings is connected to the author’s intention and the reader’s stance
How different was it from your expectations?	Reflection—Subverted expectations result from author’s intent or misinterpreted elements in previewing?
When was this text written? Where was this text written?	Context—Taking into account the time period and the place where a text was written can help understand and give more weight to certain text elements
What was the author’s purpose?	Critical Thinking

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Reading Strategies At a Glance

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To learn more about a strategy, click its name.

Previewing	Skimming & Scanning	Questioning
Get an overview of the text.	Quickly search & find information	Ask yourself questions
Visualizing	Making Connections	Inferring
Create mental pictures	Relate to the text	Read between the lines
Annotating	Decoding	Summarizing
Write down notes & comments	Understand challenging words	Sum up main idea & key elements
Synthesizing	Evaluating	Analyzing
Explore sources to come up with new perspectives	Form an opinion on the quality of the text	Look at the structure and techniques used

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