Reading+Strategies

**READING COMPREHENSION STRATEGIES**

**1. MAKE CONNECTIONS **  
 * Connect what you read to your prior knowledge.
 * 2. INFER**
 * Use your own ideas and prior knowledge to help you understand what you read.
 * 3. CREATE THOSE MOVIES SCENES**
 * Create movie scences in your mind while you are reading. Visualize the story

**4. ASK QUESTIONS**   
 * Stop and ask questions while reading to help you understand wha tyou have read. It is ok to go back and re-read.
 * 5. Determine What's Important**
 * Think about the most important ideas
 * 6. Synthesize**
 * Bring ideas together to make a new idea.
 * 7. Monitor Understanding**
 * Check to make sure you are understanding what you read by asking yourself questions and summarizing.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16pt;">Remember, it is perfectly fine to go back and re-read if you discover you are not understanding the reading.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16pt;">**8.** **Use Fix-Up Strategies**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16pt;">Use strategies when you get stuck on a word. For example, use context clues.