Reading Comprehension
Good students know they must read a text more than once, using various reading strategies, to truly comprehend new material.
What Good Readers Do:
- Think about what is known about topic
- Know purpose for reading
- Preview text
- Make and check predictions
- Visualize or create mental images
- Ask and answer questions
- Make inferences
- Monitor understanding
- Identify main ideas and summarize
- Reread the passage
- Read ahead and see if it makes sense
- Adjust reading rate (e.g., slow down)
- Identify unknown words (e.g., sound out, break into parts, use context clues, look up in dictionary)
