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Reading Comprehension Strategies: Make Connections Visualize Ask Questions

The document provides reading comprehension strategies for students to use when analyzing texts, including making connections, visualizing content, asking questions, inferring, determining importance, and synthesizing information. It encourages readers to relate what they are reading to their own lives and prior knowledge, create mental images, pose inquiries, draw conclusions between the lines, identify big ideas, and combine new knowledge with existing understanding.

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Reading Comprehension Strategies: Make Connections Visualize Ask Questions

The document provides reading comprehension strategies for students to use when analyzing texts, including making connections, visualizing content, asking questions, inferring, determining importance, and synthesizing information. It encourages readers to relate what they are reading to their own lives and prior knowledge, create mental images, pose inquiries, draw conclusions between the lines, identify big ideas, and combine new knowledge with existing understanding.

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Reading Comprehension Strategies

Make Connections
What connections do I make as I read? Good readers notice pieces of text that relate to or remind them of: Their lives, past experiences, and prior knowledge ther !ooks, articles, movies, songs, or pieces of writing "vents, people, or iss#es Tips:

Visualize
Good readers create pict#res in their minds while the% read& While reading, note places where %o# get a clear pict#re in %o#r mind that helps %o# #nderstand the text: I can pict#re$ I can see the$ I can vis#ali'e$ The movie in m% head shows$ (se %o#r senses to connect the characters, events, and ideas to clarif% the pict#re in %o#r head& I can taste)hear)smell the$ I can feel the$

Ask Questions
Good readers ask *#estions !efore, d#ring, and after reading to !etter #nderstand the a#thor and the meaning of the text& +sk *#estions of the a#thor, %o#rself, and the text: What is the a#thor tr%ing to sa%? What is the message of this piece? ,o I know something a!o#t this topic? What do I think I will learn from this text? -ow co#ld this !e explained to someone else? What predictions do I have a!o#t this reading?

That reminds me of$ This made me think of$ I read another !ook that$ This is different from$ I remem!er when$

Infer
-ow do I read !etween the lines? When the answers are .right there,/ good readers draw concl#sions !ased on !ackgro#nd knowledge and cl#es in the text& Ask yourself: I wonder wh%$ I wonder how$ I wonder if$ 0ind information from the text that might !e cl#es to the answers and #se these with %o#r !ackgro#nd knowledge for possi!le answers&

Determine Importance
What1s the !ig idea? So what? Good readers look for things that help them identif% !ig ideas and wh% the% are important& 2ook at text feat#res for cl#es: Titles and headings 3old print 4ict#res and captions Graphs and charts Chapter o!5ectives and *#estions Tips: The !ig idea is$ 6ost important information is&&& So far I1ve learned$ The a#thor is sa%ing$ This idea is similar to$

Synthesize
-ow do I #se what I1ve read to create m% own ideas? Good readers com!ine new information from their reading with existing knowledge in order to form new ideas or interpretations& S%nthesis is creating a single #nderstanding from a variet% of so#rces& Tips: Compare and contrast what I1m reading with what I alread% know or other so#rces of information& Think of new wa%s to #se this information& Can connections I make across this text help me to create new generali'ations or new perspectives?

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