Active Reading Strategies are strategies that a reader uses in order to understand what they are reading.

 

SCHEMA:  Try to connect the book to things you about which you already have some knowledge.

 

PREDICT:  Try to determine what you think will happen in the text by looking at the title, the headings, and the illustrations.

 

VISUALIZE:  Create pictures in your mind (brain movie) of the characters, settings, and events as you read.

 

QUESTION:  Ask yourself questions before, during, and after reading to see if you are understanding what you are reading and if the text makes sense.

 

CONNECT: Find ways to relate the text to yourself, another text, or the world around you.

 

IDENTIFY: Decide what the author's purpose for writing the text is.  Determine the important details, the main idea, and the theme of the text.  Use these to help you understand what you are reading.

 

INFER: Use clues in the text along with your own knowledge to "fill in the gaps" that are not stated specifically in the text.  "Read between the lines" to draw conclustions and make further predictions.

 

EVALUATE AND SYNTHESIZE:  "Put it all together" to retell, summarize, and form opinions about what you read.