8. Comprehension Check for Understanding
Every book is written because the author has something they want to tell us. Sometimes it is to learn something new, or it may be to entertain us or make us think. The secret to this strategy is remembering to think about what the author is telling us when we read and to stop often to check for understanding.
Questions to ask:
Who?
and
What?

9. Comprehension
Back Up and Reread
Every

10. Comprehension
Monitor and Fix Up

11. Comprehension
Retell the Story

12. Comprehension
Use Prior Knowledge to Connect with Text

13. Comprehension
Make a Picture or Mental Image

14. Comprehension
Ask Questions Throughout the Reading Process

15. Comprehension
Predict what will Happen; Use Text to Confirm

16. Comprehension
Infer and Support with Evidence

17. Comprehension Use Text Features
(titles, headings, captions, graphic features)

18. Comprehension
Summarize Text; Include Sequence of Main Events

19. Comprehension Use Main Idea and Supporting Details to
Determine Importance

20. Comprehension
Use Determine and Analyse Author’s Purpose and Support with Text

21. Comprehension Recognize Literary Elements
(genre, plot, character, setting, problem/ resolution, theme)

22. Comprehension
Recognize and Explain Cause-and-Effect
Relationships

23. Comprehension
Compare and Contrast Within and Between Text

25. Accuracy Cross Checking
Do the pictures and/or words look right? Do they sound right?
Do they make sense?

26. Accuracy
Use the Pictures
Do the words and pictures match?

27. Accuracy
Use Beginning and Ending Sounds

28. Accuracy
Blend Sounds; Stretch and Reread

29. Accuracy
Flip the Sound

30. Accuracy
Chunk Letters and Sounds Together

31. Accuracy
Skip the Word, then Come Back

32. Accuracy
Trade a Word / Guess a Word that Makes Sense

34. Fluency
Voracious Reading

35. Fluency
Read Appropriate-Level Texts That are a Good Fit

36. Fluency
Reread Text

37. Fluency
Practice Common Sight Words and High Frequency Words

38. Fluency
Check Adjust and Apply Different Reading Rates to Match Text

39. Fluency Use Punctuation to Enhance Phrasing and Prosody
End marks, commas, etc.

41. Expand Vocabulary
Voracious Reading

42. Expand Vocabulary
Tune In to Interesting Words and Use New Vocabulary in Speaking and Writing

43. Expand Vocabulary
Use Pictures, Illustrations, and Diagrams

44. Expand Vocabulary Use Word Parts to Determine the Meaning of Words
Prefixes, suffixes, origins, abbreviations, etc.

45. Expand Vocabulary
Use Prior Knowledge and Context to Predict and Confirm Meaning

46. Expand Vocabulary
Ask Someone to Define the Word for You

47. Expand Vocabulary
Use Dictionaries, Thesauruses, and Glossaries as Tools