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Reading Strategies
***This page is still under construction*** Comprehension Strategies:Strategies to increase students understanding of the text. - Anticipation Guide: Anticipation guides are typically used as a pre-reading strategy and help to engage students in thought and discussion about ideas and concepts that they will encounter in the text.
- Text Walk: This strategy provides students an opportunity to preview texts of different genre in order to read strategically based on their purposes for reading the text. It also familiarizes the student to the features and structure of the text.
- Making Connections: text-to-self, how does the text remind remind you about yourself; text-to-text, how does the text remind you of something else you have read; and text-to-world connections; how does the text remind you of something that is happening in the world or your life today. Making connections increases comprehension. Make sure students articulate how the connection helped them understand the text.
- Inferential Reading: The inferential reading strategy helps students read "between the lines" even with seemingly straightforward text. Students learn to recognize that there are different types of inferences to analyze text more consciously and strategically. Students use their background knowledge and text clues to make an inference.
- Visualizing/Verbalizing- Strategy for improving word/text meaning by students forming mental images. Encourage students to use "structure" vocabulary that assists in describing an image. Such as; what, size, shape, color, number, where, movement, mood, background, perspective, when, sound.
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Questioning
The questions only strategy teaches students how to pose questions about the texts they are reading and encourages them to read actively as they work to answer the questions they have posed. -
QAR (Question-Answer-Relationship): QAR is a great way to help students figure out how to answer questions based on a given text. There are four basic question-answer relationships, Right There, Think and Search, Author and Me, and On My Own. When students learn and apply this strategy they learn how to effectively answer each type of question as well as increase their understanding of the text. - Right There Qquestions- The answer can be found directly in the text. The answer is usually found in one sentence in the text. The question and answer usually have similar key words.
Example Right There Questions- Where does the this person live?, When does the story take place?, How many ____ are there? -
Think and Search Questions- The answer can be found in the text but may be in more than one place and usually involve higher level thinking.
Example Think and Search Questions- What are the important ideas in this text?Describe what the person looked like?, What kinds of challenges did the person face? - Author and Me Questions- Students need to think about what they learned from the text and what they know to figure out the answer. The answer is not directly in the text.
Example Author and Me Questions- Why did the author...?, What questions do you still have about the text?, If you could change the text- what would you change or add and why? Example On My Own Questions- What do you think about...?, When have you...?, What is your opinion about...? More Links to Learn About QAR: http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/instruction/ela/6-12/Reading/Reading%20strategies/QAR.htm http://www.kimskorner4teachertalk.com/readingliterature/readingstrategies/QAR.htm http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=227 http://forpd.ucf.edu/strategies/stratqar.html http://www.indiana.edu/~l517/QAR.htm http://www.readingquest.org/strat/qar.html -
Interactive Notebook
This strategy encourages students to use a two-column note-taking strategy. In the right column, they take notes on essential ideas and information from a text, presentation, film etc.; in the left-hand column, they interact with the content in any way they choose (personal connections, illustrations, etc.) to increase their comprehension of content.
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