• WHAT DO GOOD READERS DO?
     
    Strategies of Effective Readers
     
    *   VISUALIZE-make mental pictures or sensory images
    *   CONNECT-connect to own experience, to events in the world- to other readings
    *   QUESTION-to actively wonder, to surface uncertainties, to interrogate the text
    *   INFER-to predict, hypothesize, interpret, draw conclusions
    *   EVALUATE-to determine importance, make judgments
    *   ANALYZE-to notice text structures, author"s craft, vocabulary, purpose, theme, point of view
    *   RECALL-to retell, summarize, remember information
    *   SELF-MONITOR-to recognize and act on confusion, uncertainty, attention problems
Last Modified on October 14, 2010