Multiple Comprehension Strategies

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Before reading a text, students who are strategic often do the following:

• Activate background knowledge related to the text.
• Preview the text in order to make predictions and/or visualize the upcoming content.
• Ask questions about the text.

During their reading, students who are strategic often do the following:

• Predict future events/content in the text.
• Monitor their own understanding.
• Use fix-up strategies when they come to content they don't understand or remember (reread, use resources, decode, change speed, etc.)
• Generate questions about the reading.
• Make inferences.
• Make connections between ideas, concepts, and characters in the text.
• Synthesize by combining information from different sources, combining it with their background information.
• Visualize what is happening.
• Take notes.
• Evaluate the text: Is it believable? Is it interesting? Is it well written?
• Construct responses to the text.

After they have read the text, students who are strategic often do the following:

• Generate questions about the text.
• Summarize and identify the main idea of the text.
• Recall content.
• Extend the knowledge gained from text to other reading, writing, speaking, or art activities.
• Evaluate the content and ideas in the text.
• Outline the text.
• Use text as a stepping stone for further reading.