1. Reading Comprehension Strategies!!
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Reading Comprehension Strategies!!
Stacey Darchicourt

2. When Do I Use the Strategies?
Before Reading
Prior Knowledge
Predicting
Visualizing
Questioning
Making Connections
During Reading
Summarizing
After Reading

3. Predicting Prompts! What do you think will happen next?
Based on what has already happened, I think…
After looking at the cover and reading the title, what do you think this
book will be about?
What clues do the pictures provide?
I predict this because…
Was this prediction accurate? Why or why not?
I learned…
I’m wondering…
What would happen if…?

4. Visualizing Prompts! What picture do you see in your head?
What do you feel, see, smell, hear?
How do the words or pictures make you feel?
Can you connect the words to your own experiences?
Does this text remind you of another text?

5. Making Connections
As readers respond to text, they make connections. It is these connections to the text, to the world, to background information, and to experiences that make readers feel like the characters, connect to the story, or remember similar experiences.
Ketch, A. (2005). Conversation: The comprehension connection. The Reading Teacher, 59, 8-13.

6. Text to Self
You are connecting the story to your own life, experiences, and feelings.
This reminds me of ……
I understand how the character feels because ……
The setting makes me think about another place …..
I experienced this myself……
The text says _____ this reminds me of ……
If that happened to me …. I would …

7. Text to Text
You are connecting the characters, setting, events, and information from one story to another.
The character in this story is like the character in …..
The setting in this story is the same as the setting in ……
This event is like the event in ……
These two stories are alike……
The information in this story is similar to the information I
learned in ……..
This book reminds me of ________ because …..

8. You are connecting the story to world history and events.
Text to World
You are connecting the story to world history and events.
This happened in real life …..
This is like something I heard on the news….
This happened when …..
This story is similar to….
This reminds me of the real world because ……

9. Summarizing Prompts What was the text about?
What happened in the beginning, middle and end?
Who are the characters? Where does the story take place? What is the problem and solution?
What is the author trying to tell me?
What is the main idea of the text and the supporting details?
First, Next, Then, Finally
What did you learn from this text? (nonfiction)
How would you tell someone about what you just read?

10. Summary Star 1 word 5 words to tell about the conclusion
for a
new
title
5 words to tell about the conclusion
2 words about how it made you feel
4 words to state the
problem
3 words to tell about the setting

11. Somebody, Wanted, But, So Somebody (Character)
Wanted (what the “somebody wanted)
But (something happened)
So (the result or solution)

12. Story Glove

13. Directions for Story Glove
Thumb: Stick people- represents the characters in the story. Who is this story mostly about? Who are the characters in this story?
Index finger: House – represents the setting of the story. Where and when did the story take place?
Middle finger: Lock – represents the problem in the story. What is the problem in this story?
Ring finger: Key – represents the solution to the problem in the story. How is the problem solved in this story?
Pinky finger: Ladder – represents the beginning, middle, and end of the story.
Front of hand middle of palm: Light-bulb – represents the main idea of the story. What is this story mostly about? What did the author want you to think about?
Back of hand in middle: Heart – represents personal connections to the story. Does this story remind you of anything that you know about? Does this story remind you of anything that you have experienced?

14. Using Storyline Online http://www.storylineonline.net/

15. Into the Book http://reading.ecb.org/student/index.html