2. Before Reading strategies
● ABC Brainstorming: This activity can be used
before,during, and after reading. Using this activity
before reading allows students to activate knowledge.
Students are given charts with the ABC’s on it and must
write a word or phrase starting with that letter.
● K-W-L Charts: This activity is used before, during, and
after. When you apply it to the before reading students
write down what they (K)now and (W)hat they wanna know.
3. Before reading strategies Continued
● Title and Cover Web:This is a strategy used before
reading. Students look at the title and cover of the book
and make predictions on what they think the story is
about.
● Previewing Vocabulary: Looking at the vocabulary before
reading. Defining and understanding vocabulary to make
reading and comprehending stories easier.
● Ask Questions:Ask questions before reading to activate
prior knowledge. What do students think the story is
about from the title? What are clues on the title about
the story? Have they read the story? Do they think
they’ll like the story?
4. During Reading strategies
● Think Alouds: This happens during reading. The reader
stops during the story to discuss what is happening or
what the students predict will happen.
● Revist: Revisiting is used to have students go back to a
part of the text and determine if what they thought was
going to happen actually happened or not.
● Reading Guide: This happens during reading. Students use
comprehension to organize the main points of a story
while reading.
5. During reading strategies continued
● Visual Imagery:Readers create visuals or apply the
pictures in the book to information they are reading.
This helps students think back to a visual and remember
the information connected to it.
● Active Reading:This strategy has many different affective
uses. Think, pause, act and making connections are two
ways of the many included in active readings. The more
actively involved you keep your students in reading the
better they can comprehend.
6. After reading strategies
● Graphic Organizers:This strategy can be used after the
text in many forms. Students could use charts, timelines,
or maps to reflect on the information from the story.
● Summarizing:Students will use important information and
key details from the text to retell the important parts
of the story. Summarization helps students tell what they
know.
● Exit Slip:Exit slips are given after reading. Exit slips
can be one or multiple questions or prompts about the
reading.
7. After reading strategies continued
● Word Walls: Word Walls are a way to display new words to
the classroom. If you keep adding words from each story
the more your word wall grows so does your students
vocabulary. You can have students decide after reading a
story what words to add.
● Story Sequence: Story sequencing is the ability to
identify the beginning, middle, and end of a story. The
students can use important information or key details to
separate the text into 3 parts.
8. Reference page
● Bursuck, William.2012.Teaching Reading to Students Who
Are At Risk or Have Disabilities. Pearson
● http://www.readingrockets.org/article/revisiting-read-alo
uds-instructional-strategies-encourage-students-engagemen
t-text
● http://wsascd.org/downloads/Active_Reading_Strategies.pdf
