WHAT GOOD
READERS DO
Proficient readers think about their reading as they read. They monitor
to make sure things make sense, identify what's unclear and try to
figure it out, and use multiple strategies to comprehend.
Good readers:
- Use prior knowledge. They
relate information to what they already know.
- Text-to-self (relate to their own experiences)
- Text-to-text (relate to other things they've read)
- Text-to-world (relate to other things they know about the
world)
- Focus on the most important
ideas.
- Ask questions as they
read.
- Visualize and make
auditory and other sensory connections.
- Make inferences,
including predictions and conclusions.
- Retell or sum up what
they've read.
- Use strategies to fix it
when they don't comprehend at first, including:
- Skip ahead.
- Reread.
- Use the context.
- Use the syntax (i.e. sentence structure).
- Sound it out.