1. Active Reading strategies

2. You need to interact with what you are reading to read effectively
Reading is Active!
You need to interact with what you are reading to read effectively
Your mind is in constant motion when you read
To fully understand what you read you complete tasks
Before you start to read
During reading
After reading

5. During reading strategies

7. There are 8 strategies that good readers use while reading to increase comprehension

8. Making Connections
   Good readers make connections to what they are reading.  They connect the reading to their own experiences, things in the world, and other stories they have read.  Readers should be thinking, "What does this remind me of?"

9. Prior Knowledge
   Good readers think about what they already know about a topic to help improve their understanding.  They should always ask themselves, "What do I already know about this topic?"

10. Ask Questions
   Good readers question what they are reading.  Questions can be asked before, during and after reading.  Readers think, "What do I wonder?"

11. Visualization
   Good readers use their 5 senses to imagine what is happening in the reading.  What can you see, hear, feel, smell and taste?  "It's like a movie in my head!"

12. Inference
   Good readers combine what they already know with what they learned in the reading to come to a conclusion or make predictions. "Read between the lines!"

13. Determine what is Important
   Good readers can pull out the information that is of most value.  "The text was mostly about..."

14. Summarizing
   Good readers can retell the main details of a story in only a few sentences.

15. Synthesizing
   Good readers can go beyond the text and combine their own knowledge with the reading to create something new.