Mrs. Parrish's Little Panthers

Comprehension Strategies

 

 

In the front of your reading textbook, there is a set of green pages that tell you how to use each of these comprehension strategies while you're reading.

 

Also, check out Into the Book for interactive lessons and games for several different comprehension strategies.

 

• Background Knowledge: Using what you already know to help you understand more about what you're reading.

• Important Ideas: The main facts and details in nonfiction passages. They give us clues about the author's purpose.

• Inferring: Using background knowledge and clues from the text to come up with your own ideas about what message the author is trying to get across.

• Monitor and Clarify: Stop and make sure what you're reading makes sense. If it doesn't go back, reread, and clarify what you didn't understand before.

• Predict and Set Purpose: Use clues to make smart guesses about what will happen next in the story. Thing about your purpose. Why are you reading this?

• Questioning: Stop and ask yourself questions as you read. When you don't understand something go back and reread.

• Story Structure: What happens at the beginning, middle, and end of the story? How do things change?

• Summarize: When you summarize, you retell the story to check your understanding.

• Text Structure: How is the information organized? Is the author comparing and contrasting, using cause and effect, sequence, problem and then solution?

• Visualize: Form pictures in your mind while you're reading to help your comprehension.