FREE Reading Strategy Resources Classroom Posters: This book includes several lessons and a list of texts for each strategy. If you want to incorporate these strategies in your instruction, I highly recommend Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis’s book Strategies That Work. Synthesizing allows readers to store information, so they can move on through the text. This reading strategy is like a jigsaw puzzle, where individual pieces are connected to form a new picture. Synthesizing occurs when readers combine new information with prior knowledge to form an original idea. When students are asked to summarize a text, they rely heavily on this reading strategy.
Readers utilize this strategy when determining an author’s purpose. Students must be able to identify and remember important information. This reading strategy allows students to find a text’s essential elements. Most questions from the second strategy (Questioning) require students to infer. When students do not master this reading strategy, they cannot grasp the deeper essence of texts. Readers must rely on inference skills when making predictions before and during reading. Inferencing occurs when readers merge their prior knowledge with clues from the text to make a conclusion. Not only does it help with comprehension, but visualizing also stimulates imaginative thinking and increases engagement in the text. This strategy allows readers to place themselves in the story, and it strengthens their relationship with the text.
You might have heard this referred to as “creating a movie in the mind” based on the text.
Visualizing is necessary for students to make text real and concrete. They question to construct meaning, find answers, solve problems, clarify confusion, and discover new information. Successful readers ask questions before, during, and after readings. Questions are essential to learning and teaching, and they help move students forward in a text. Text-to-World: Connections that readers make between the text and topics or issues related to the world.Text-to-Text: Connections that readers make between the text they are reading and other texts.Text-to-Self: Connections that readers make between the text and their background knowledge or past experiences.There are three basic types of connections: When students make connections while reading, they are creating a bridge from new information to known information.
These reading strategies do not function in isolation they work synergistically to help students fully access the text. The six strategies outlined below cover all aspects and subskills of reading. We must explicitly teach students how to use reading strategies to construct meaning when they read.
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