Conclusion of The Top 10 Reading Strategies

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TOP 10 READING STRATEGIES

CONCLUSION OF THE TOP 10 READING STRATEGIES

Language, Thinking, and Reading are inter-connected. Reading involves cracking the
alphabetic code to determine the words and then thinking about those words to construct
meaning. Strategic readers address their thinking in an inner-conversation that helps them make
sense of what they read. Reading strategies focus on language development and the thinking
aspects of reading.

Getting readers to think when they read, to develop an awareness of their thinking, and to use
strategies that help them comprehend are the primary goals of comprehension instruction. True
comprehension goes beyond literal understanding and involves the reader’s interaction with text.
If students are to become thoughtful, insightful readers, they must extend their thinking beyond a
superficial understanding of the text.

TOP 10 READING STRATEGIES

1. Connect to the text


2. Ask questions
3. Expand vocabulary
4. Predict and prove
5. Sense it
6. Decide what’s important
7. Make inferences then draw conclusion
8. Summarize and synthesize
9. Check your understanding
10. Build fluency

STRATEGY 1 : connect to the text

Making connection : a bridge from the new to the know

Text To Self
Text To Text
Text To World

STRATEGY 2 : ask questios


Asking Questions: The Strategy That Propels Readers Forward

“Questioning is the strategy that keeps readers engaged. When readers ask questions, they clarify
understanding and forge ahead to make meaning. Asking questions is at the heart of thoughtful
reading.”

STRATEGY 3: Expand Vocabulary

“The larger the reader’s vocabulary (either oral or print), the easier it is to make sense of the
text.”

STRATEGY 4 : Preedict and prove (Guess and Check)

“Research suggests that when students make predictions their understanding increases and they
are more interested in the reading

material.”

STRATEGY 5: Sense it

Visualizing : A tool to enhance Understannding

“Visualizing is a comprehension strategy that enables readers to make the words on a page real
and concrete.”

STRATEGY 6: Decide What’s Important

“Thoughtful readers grasp essential ideas and important information when reading. Readers

must differentiate between less important ideas and key ideas that are central to the meaning of

the text.”

STRATEGY 7: Make Inferences then draw conclusion

“Inferring is at the intersection of taking what is known, garnering clues from the text, and
thinking ahead to make a judgment, discern a theme, or speculate about what is to come.”
STRATEGY 8: Summarize and synthesize

The Evolution of Thought

Synthesizing is putting together separate parts into a new whole….a process akin to working a
jigsaw puzzle.

STRATEGY 9: check your understanding

“If confusion disrupts meaning, readers need to stop and clarify their understanding. Readers

may use a variety of strategies to “fix up” comprehension when meaning goes awry.”

STRATEGY 10: Build Fluency

“Fluency is important because it frees students to understand what they read.”

READING STRATEGIES

CAUTION!

“Although these strategies tend to be introduced

independently, readers rarely use these in

isolation when reading. These thoughts interact

and intersect to help readers make meaning and

often occur simultaneously during reading.”

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