TEAM READ!

We have been doing more great reading! Good readers use strategies and we have been talking a lot about these strategies and practicing them together. Here are some of the reading strategies that good readers use!

Reread

Visualize

Stop and Think

Infer

Identify Story Elements

Use Background Knowledge

Make Connections

Sometimes we do these and don't even realize we are doing them but other times we need to practice doing these as we read. All of these strategies help us think more about the text as we are reading so we can understand what we are reading. 

If you are using reading strategies while you are reading then you are being a good reader! It's hard to see what a good reader does because all this thinking while reading happens inside your head! A good reader can tell another person what is happening in the story and what they are thinking about as they read. Can you tell another person about the book you are reading? Can you tell him what you are wondering or predicting as you read?

Do you use these strategies? How have these strategies helped you as a reader? Is there a strategy that you think you need to work on more? Please share!