1. Reading Strategies

2. Making Predictions
A prediction is a guess about what might happen using evidence from the text and background knowledge.
Use the title, text and illustrations to help you.
PREDICTING QUESTIONS
What do you think will happen?
What will the author do or tell you next?
What clues tell you what will happen?

3. VISUALIZING Visualizing is making a mental picture while you read.
It is a movie playing in your brain.
USE YOUR SENSES
I see what I read!
I hear what I read!
I smell what I read!
I taste what I read!
I feel what I read!

4. ASKING QUESTIONS
We ask questions to clarify meaning and further our understanding of the text.
Ask questions before, during and after reading
The Five W’s
Who? What? When? Where? Why?
What questions do you have about the text?
Think about what else you want to know.
Question parts of the text that are unclear.
Reread the text to find answers to your questions!

5. Making Connections
Connections are links that readers can make between what they are reading and things they already know or have experienced (prior knowledge).
Think about what you already know from other stories and experiences.
Use that knowledge to make a connection.

6. IDENTIFYING Determine the author’s purpose
Why did the author write this text? Remember PIE
Persuade - to change your mind or make you believe something
Inform - to share information or teach you something
Entertain - to make you laugh or enjoy the story
Find the important details
Which events or details are most important?
Find the main idea
What is the text mostly talking about?

7. SUMMARIZE What is the whole story about?
Tell the most important events.
Who is in the story?
Where does the story take place?
Is there a problem and a solution?
What happened in the beginning, middle and end?
Use your own words.
Keep in mind the BIG IDEA.
Keep details from the book in the correct order.

8. Making Inferences
Inferring is using clues to figure out what the author really means.
Readers need to use prior knowledge, think about the text, and search for clues in the text, to make meaning beyond the text.
Readers need to be a detectives and read between the lines.
Text: Anna collected shells. Then she went for a swim in the cool, salty water.
Inference: Anna is at the ocean.
Use the CLUES in the text to discover what is NOT directly stated.

10. Strategies for Reading Longer Words
Look for parts you know at the BEGINNING of the word.
un pre- mis-
re ex- non-
Look for parts you know at the END of the word.
-ly -tion -ful less -er -ing
-ed -s -ness
Look for VOWEL PATTERNS you know.
ai ee ea igh
Oa ar au or
Oi oo ow ou
Divide the word into SYLLABLES.
kit-ten stu-dent
nap-kin fro-zen
cat-er-pil-lar
Make your BEST GUESS.
Does it sound right?
Does it make sense?
If not, RE-READ and try again.