1. Active Reading Strategies

2. Active Reading Strategies
Please Visit Cousin Quincy Clark Everyday (PVCQCE)
Good Readers learn
to do these while
they are reading
With practice it
becomes automatic!!!

3. Predict
Stop and think.
Try to guess what will happen next based on what you read. Keep reading to see if your prediction was correct.
Revise your predictions as you read on.
Example:
The Spirit Bear approached Cole with a slow lazy stride, its head held low. Cole clenched his fist. Maybe he could hold up his arm. Maybe he had energy for one last swing.

4. Visualize

5. Connect Text to Text, Text to Self, Text to World
Connect personally to what you are reading
Link it back to other things you have read, experiences you might have had, and things or events happening in the world around you

6. Question
Ask yourself questions in order to understand the text more deeply.
Why did this happen in the text? Why did the character do that? What would happen if they had done _______ instead?
What are you confused by? What is motivating the character(s)? Why are certain things happening?

7. Clarify

8. Evaluate

9. Review!!!
What is the acronym for the 6 active reading strategies discussed? (PVCQCE)
Describe each of the six strategies

10. Predict:
Question:
figure out what will happen next
ask questions
Clarify:
Visualize:
STOP AND PAY ATTENTION
describe the images
create the movie in your mind
summarize/explain
read on
note answers to question
Connect:
connect personally
Evaluate:
connect to media
form opinions
make a logical guess
come to a conclusion