Comprehension Strategies
by Chelsea Sims
1. Predicting
2. Inferring
3. Questioning
4. Connecting
5. To understand what you read, you must use each of these strategies. They are all reliant on making connections to what you already know.
6. Prediction and Inferring are inherently related. Prediction requires making inferences based on background knowledge and the text, and inferring requires predictions based on background knowledge.
7. Determining Importance
8. Synthesizing
9. Visualizing
