Reading Strategies 

Summarizing chunks of text

Determine and define unknown words

Questioning of the text

• Level 1, Literal
    * Definition, answer can be found in the text.
• Level 2, Interpretive
    * Requires inference skills.
• Level 3, Universal
    * Questions go beyond text.

  Types of definition

• Classification

  - Divides into categories.

• Negation

  - Excludes definition.

• Exemplification

  - Provides examples.

• Function

  - Explains a definition in terms of purpose.

OPTIC

- Especially useful in analyzing visual texts.

• Overview
• Parts
• Title
• Interrelationships
• Conclusion

SOAPStone

- Used to guide analysis of text.

• Speaker
• Occasion
• Audience
• Purpose
• Subject
• Tone

Metacognitive markers

- Marking with ? ! * or underlying.