1. 7 Things You Can Do To Better Understand What You Read
Reading Strategies
7 Things You Can Do To Better Understand What You Read

2. Monitoring Comprehension
Actively check in on yourself to make sure you’re understanding the reading.
Tip: Ask yourself, “what just happened on that page (or in that chapter)?”
If you can answer that question, you’re on the right track
If you can’t answer that question, go back and re-read that section.

3. Visualizing
When you’re reading, you should be seeing a mental picture of the characters and events.

4. Connecting
Make connections between what you are reading to your own life and experiences

5. Questioning Ask yourself questions while reading such as:
what will happen next?
what is the character’s motivations?
who will impact the plot next?

6. Make predictions, hypotheses, interpretations, and draw conclusions
Inferring
Make predictions, hypotheses, interpretations, and draw conclusions

7. Determining importance
Make judgements and evaluations about the characters and their actions

8. Summarize or Retell what just happened
Synthesizing
Summarize or Retell what just happened