Reading Strategies

1. What are the reading strategies we will be studying?
2. What is questioning?
3. What is visualizing?
4. What does it mean to infer?
5. What does it mean to determinine importance in text?
6. What is synthesizing?

What are the reading strategies we will be studying?

Questioning, Visualizing, Inferencing/Inferring, Determining Importance in 
Text and Synthesizing

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What is questioning?

Questioning when I wonder about important ideas in the text, and I ask 
questions to think more about them.  
Some thinking starters I will use is: I wonder�  Why�  How come� as I read 
the text.

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What is visualizing?

When I visualize I make pictures in my mind of what I�m reading. 
Some thinking starters I will use is: I have a picture in my mind of� I have 
a mental image that� I see� The movie in my head is�  This is the inner 
conversation I will have with myself as I read.

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What does it mean to infer?

I infer when I figure out things the author does not say directly.  To 
infer, I use what I�ve read so far and my own knowledge to help me.
Here are some thinking starters to use:  I infer� I think this means�  I 
think�

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What does it mean to determinine importance in text?

When I determine importance in the text I pick out the most important 
information. My thinking starters are:  This is really important�I now know 
that�The most important point to remember about�is�

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What is synthesizing?

Synthesizing information is when I combine new information with my own 
knowledge to form a new idea.
Thinking Starters I will use is I used to think�but now I�m thinking�At 
first I thought�but now I�m thinking�Here�s what I�m thinking so far� This 
is very different than I thought it was going to be� I get it� Aha!... 
Yes!!...

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