Comprehension Check for Understanding Every book is written because the author has something they want to tell us. Sometimes it is to learn something new, or it may be to entertain us or make us think. The secret to this strategy is remembering to think about what the author is telling us when we read and to stop often to check for understanding. Questions to ask: Who? and What?

Comprehension Back Up and Reread Every

Comprehension Monitor and Fix Up

Comprehension Retell the Story

Comprehension Use Prior Knowledge to Connect with Text

Comprehension Make a Picture or Mental Image

Comprehension Ask Questions Throughout the Reading Process

Comprehension Predict what will Happen; Use Text to Confirm

Comprehension Infer and Support with Evidence

Comprehension Use Text Features (titles, headings, captions, graphic features)

Comprehension Summarize Text; Include Sequence of Main Events

Comprehension Use Main Idea and Supporting Details to Determine Importance

Comprehension Use Determine and Analyse Author’s Purpose and Support with Text

Comprehension Recognize Literary Elements (genre, plot, character, setting, problem/ resolution, theme)

Comprehension Recognize and Explain Cause-and-Effect Relationships

Comprehension Compare and Contrast Within and Between Text

Accuracy Cross Checking Do the pictures and/or words look right? Do they sound right? Do they make sense?

Accuracy Use the Pictures Do the words and pictures match?

Accuracy Use Beginning and Ending Sounds

Accuracy Blend Sounds; Stretch and Reread

Accuracy Flip the Sound

Accuracy Chunk Letters and Sounds Together

Accuracy Skip the Word, then Come Back

Accuracy Trade a Word / Guess a Word that Makes Sense

Fluency Voracious Reading

Fluency Read Appropriate-Level Texts That are a Good Fit

Fluency Reread Text

Fluency Practice Common Sight Words and High Frequency Words

Fluency Check Adjust and Apply Different Reading Rates to Match Text

Fluency Use Punctuation to Enhance Phrasing and Prosody End marks, commas, etc.

Expand Vocabulary Voracious Reading

Expand Vocabulary Tune In to Interesting Words and Use New Vocabulary in Speaking and Writing

Expand Vocabulary Use Pictures, Illustrations, and Diagrams

Expand Vocabulary Use Word Parts to Determine the Meaning of Words Prefixes, suffixes, origins, abbreviations, etc.

Expand Vocabulary Use Prior Knowledge and Context to Predict and Confirm Meaning

Expand Vocabulary Ask Someone to Define the Word for You

Expand Vocabulary Use Dictionaries, Thesauruses, and Glossaries as Tools