1. Active Reading Strategies
Improving Comprehension
Mrs. Davis

2. Active Reading Strategies
Scholars please take notes
5 Reading Strategies

3. Do you think about what you read
Do you think about what you read? As you read silently, think about the 5 Reading Strategies:

4. 5 Active Reading Strategies:
Question
2. Visualize
3. Predict
4. Connect
5. Respond

5. 1. Question what you read What are they talking about?
Re-read for clarity
Use Context Clues for unfamiliar words

6. What questions come to your mind?
1. Question what you read
What questions come to your mind?

7. Why do the characters act as they do? Antagonist Protagonist
1. Question what you read
Why do the characters act as they do?
Antagonist
Protagonist

8. 1. Question what you read Who tells the story? 1st Person 3rd Person
Omniscient Point of View

9. What causes events to happen?
1. Question what you read
What causes events to happen?
Cause & Effect Relationships

10. When does the action peak or climax?
1. Question what you read
When does the action peak or climax?

11. 2. Visualize
Hmm…what do I see?

12. Create a picture in your mind
2. Visualize
Create a picture in your mind

13. Make use of similes, metaphors, allusions
2. Visualize
Make use of similes, metaphors, allusions

14. 3. Predict
I predict…

15. What do you think will happen? Prove it!
3. Predict
What do you think will happen? Prove it!

16. Foreshadowing (clues/hints)
3. Predict
Foreshadowing
(clues/hints)

17. Red Herring (false clues)
3. Predict
Red Herring (false clues)

18. 4. Connect

19. Text to Your Self Bring your own experiences to the story.
4. Connect
Text to Your Self
Bring your own experiences to the story.
I remember when I………..

20. Text to Text Make connections with other literature, movies, etc.
This reminds me of another book I read!

21. Text to Real World This reminds me of…
4. Connect
Text to Real
World
This reminds me of…
I remember when I……….

22. 5. Respond

23. What does the story say to you?
5. Respond
What does the story say to you?
Strategy: Use sticky notes to respond – to events in the story.

24. What is the mood of the story?
5. Respond
What is the mood of the story?

25. What is the theme of the story?
5. Respond
What is the theme of the story?
The BIG Picture

26. What are the internal and external conflicts?
5. Respond
What are the internal and external conflicts?

27. What is the tone of the story?
5. Respond
What is the tone of the story?

28. What literal meanings are in the story?
5. Respond
What literal meanings are in the story?

29. What symbols are in the story?
5. Respond
What symbols are in the story?

30. As you read silently, think about the 5 Reading Strategies:
Question
2. Visualize
3. Predict
4. Connect
5. Respond

31. Your Turn
Scholars your coach will pass out a short story…..Please Read
“Amateur Athletic Gear” and answer questions 8 through 13.
Remember to apply the 5 Reading Strategies
Bring completed worksheet to reading class to discuss.