1. THE READING PROCESS The vital steps to really understanding what you read GERALDINE NORRIS: WWW.LINKINGTOLITERACY.COM

2. PREDICT  What sort of text is this?  What is it going to be about?  What might happen? GERALDINE NORRIS: WWW.LINKINGTOLITERACY.COM

3. ACTIVATE PRIOR KNOWLEDGE  Do I know anything about this type of text?  What do I already know about the subject? GERALDINE NORRIS: WWW.LINKINGTOLITERACY.COM

4. VISUALISE  Form pictures in your head about what you are reading.  Run a little “mind movie” as you read. GERALDINE NORRIS: WWW.LINKINGTOLITERACY.COM

5. MAKE CONNECTIONS  While you are reading make links with things you already know, similar situations or personal experiences. GERALDINE NORRIS: WWW.LINKINGTOLITERACY.COM

6. MAKE INFERENCES  Use the clues in the text that the writer has given you to work out things you might not know. GERALDINE NORRIS: WWW.LINKINGTOLITERACY.COM

7. EXAMPLES OF MAKING AN INFERENCE GERALDINE NORRIS: WWW.LINKINGTOLITERACY.COM

8. SELF-MONITOR  As you read keep yourself “in the zone”.  Use all your decoding strategies such as chunking, re-reading, reading on and back. GERALDINE NORRIS: WWW.LINKINGTOLITERACY.COM

9. ASK QUESTIONS As you read ask mental questions such as:  Were your predictions correct?  What is happening?  Who is involved?  What facts are you learning?  Is it fact or opinion? GERALDINE NORRIS: WWW.LINKINGTOLITERACY.COM

10. SUMMARISE  What are the main points of what you are reading?  As you read keep check of the important events, facts or ideas. GERALDINE NORRIS: WWW.LINKINGTOLITERACY.COM

11. SYNTHESISE  What are you going to do with what you have just read?  Do you have to make notes, answer questions or give an oral summary?  What can you do with your new knowledge? GERALDINE NORRIS: WWW.LINKINGTOLITERACY.COM

12. IMPORTANT!  The reading process is not linear – you can’t use it as a sequential order  Your brain is dipping into each part of the process all the time before, during and after reading  The object is train your brain to use the process automatically GERALDINE NORRIS: WWW.LINKINGTOLITERACY.COM