3 Stages of Reading Strategies

Pre-reading stages

• Activate prior knowledge

• Set a purpose/focus

• Identify authors/purpose/audience

• Preview (formulate hypothesis about the context, use titles, illustrations, headings)

• Pose questions

• Make predictions

• Get an idea of text’s organization genre

• Vocabulary review

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• Mind mapping

• Brainstorm

 

During-reading stages

• Read silently

• Re-read

• Read aloud

• Check predictions

• Clarify / verify comprehension

• Monitor / adjust comprehension

• Analyze

• Guess

• Find answers

• Word association and grouping

• Use context clues: semantic, syntactic, picture

• Use phonetic cues: sound patterns, affixes, word roots, word chunk, word division

• Dictionary use

 

Post-reading stages

• Summarize / paraphrase

• Reflect on what has been learned

• Find relationships/mapping

• Associate new information with old

• Seek feedback

• Interpret text

• Make connections

• Confirm predictions

• Journals

• Reading logs

• Note-taking

• Draw Conclusion