1. PREVIEW

2. PREDICT

3. SET YOUR PURPOSE

4. PRIOR KNOWLEDGE

What are different ways to preview a

book?

1. Title

2. Author

3. Cover Illustration

4. Back of the book

5. Table of Contents

6. Pictures/Illustrations

7. Skim the first paragraph or page

8. Awards

What are different ways to preview an

article: Text Features

1. Title

2. Headings

3. Sub-headings

4. Pictures

5. Captions

6. Maps, graphs, charts, boxed info

7. Skim the first paragraph or page

1. What is a prediction?

Putting together clues with your prior

knowledge and then making a guess

about what will happen next.

2. When can you make predictions?

BEFORE

DURING

AFTER

Decide your purpose in reading.

Ask yourself questions:

Are your reading for information?

Are you looking for a specific answer to

a specific question?

Are you reading for enjoyment?

Remember: You usually read more

carefully and closely when you are

looking for specific information.

When you activate your prior knowledge

about a subject you…

1. Bring your old knowledge about a topic

to the forefront of your mind.

2. Combine it with the new knowledge that

you learn from reading.

3. You end up with even more knowledge

about a topic!!!

Take a look

Preview your book

Predict what’s next

Set your purpose for the text

Prior Knowledge or remember what you know

These before reading strategies will help you

grow!

1. Highlight or mark

2. Visualize

3. Question

4. Clarify

5. Predict

6. Connections

HIGHLIGHT/MARK

VISUALIZE

QUESTION

To mark main idea,

vocabulary, dates,

events, names.

Seeing pictures in your

Mind.

Wondering about

something you are

reading.

Clarify

Predict

Connection

When you are not

clear, you put

something in your own

words.

When you guess what

comes next.

This book reminds me

of…

1. Text to self- when you read and it

somehow reminds you of your own life.

2. Text to text- When you read something

that reminds you of another book, movie

or t.v. show,

3.Text to world-when you read something

that reminds you of something going on

somewhere in the world or the ‘bigger

picture.”

Highlight

Visualize

Question

Clarify

Predict

Connections

Will make reading fun! Hey!!

1. Reflect

2. Reread

3. Remember

1. REFLECT

AFTER READING

STRATEGIES CHANT

2. REREAD

AFTER READING

STRATEGIES CHANT

3. REMEMBER

1. Reflect-take time to think about what

you just read.

2. Reread-sometimes you need to do

this if you didn’t understand it the first

time.

3. Remember-try to recall the information

you just read and summarize it in your

mind.

1. What is the definition for

schema?

prior knowledge

DEFINITIONS

2. What is the definition for

metacognition?

“thinking about thinking”

DEFINITIONS

3. What is the definition for

visualization?

Seeing pictures in your mind

while you read

What is the purpose of Before,

During and After Reading

Strategies?

To increase your

comprehension

(understanding)

of what you are

reading!!!

WILL HELP

YOU GROW!!!