EAPP - Reading Strategies

Metacognition

Thinking about how you think

Beyond

Meta means

Thinking

Cognition means

1. Make connections

2. Ask Questions

3. Determine the Importance

4. Infer and predict

5. Visualize

6. Synthesize

7. Use fix up strategies

The Reading Strategies

Make Connections

Helps readers understand a text by linking it to their own experience. What we are reading to another thing

• Text-to-Self

• Text-to-Text

• Text-to-Life

Example of Make Connections:

Text-to-Self

Relating text to similar events in your life

Text-to-Text

Relating to text Books, movies, T.V, etc.

Text-To-Life

Relating text to real world events

Ask Questions

Actively engaging with a text by formulating questions before, during, and after reading. To be able to understand things

Determine the Importance

Pick and choose which details are the most important to remember

Infer and Predict

Good readers also make educated guesses about what may happen later in the story.

Infer

to assume things

Visualize

Involves creating mental images based on the text you are reading. It helps improve comprehension by making the text more engaging and easier to remember.

Synthesize

The process of combing information from a text with prior knowledge and experiences to form a new understanding or insight

Use Fix up Strategies

Techniques readers use to repair comprehension when they encounter difficulties

• Re-read

• Underline

• Use a dictionary

• Read aloud

• Ask for help

Use Fix up Strategies examples: