Active Comprehension Strategies

  • Generate questions about ideas in text while reading
  • Construct mental images representing ideas in text
  • Summarise
  • Analyse into categories or structure using graphic organisers
  • Understand why a text is being read
  • Gain an overview of text before reading
  • Make predictions about the upcoming text
  • Read selectively based on their overview
  • Associate ideas in text to what they already know
  • Check whether predictions are true
  • Revise prior knowledge if not true
  • Figure out unfamiliar vocabulary based on context clues
  • Underline
  • Reread
  • Make notes
  • Paraphrase to remember important points
  • Interpret the text
  • Evaluate its quality
  • Review important points as reading concludes
  • Think about how ideas in text might be useful in future
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