Before, During, and After Reading Strategies

1. By: Christopher Doutrich

2. Before Reading
 This stage helps prepare you for what you are about to
be reading.
 Taking the time to use these strategies helps you to
understand the text better when you begin reading.

3. Preview the Text
 Read the title along with the headings
 Look at the different imagery in the text.

4. Make Predictions
 Think about what you saw while previewing, and begin
to think about what the text will be about.
 Take a guess on what might happen.
 What do you think you might come across while
reading?

5. Use Your Prior Knowledge
 After you think you
know what the text will
be about think about
what you already know
about the text.

6. Think About the Purpose of the
Text
 Think about why the
author may have wrote
this text
 What do you think the
author is trying to do
with this text?
 Why are you reading this
text?

7. Look For Difficult Words
 Before reading it is a good idea to look through the text
for any unfamiliar words.
 Try to figure out what these words mean using context
clues. This way when you come across the word while
reading, it doesn’t throw you off track!

8. Great readers don’t just read the words.
They also use these strategies while they’re reading!

9. Think About the Text
 Think about what you’re
reading and whether or
not you are
understanding.
 Does it make sense to
you?
 Are you understanding
what the author is telling
you?

10. Visualize
DON’T JUST READ THE
WORDS
 Think about what you’re
reading and paint a picture in
your head!
 Where’s this story taking
place? Who’s there? What’s
happening?
 Answer these questions by
visualizing what’s happening
in the text in your head.

11. Take A Think Break
 If you’re taking in a lot of information, stop to think
about what you’ve read so far
 Summarize it in your head to help you remember. This
way you don’t have to go back in the text and reread as
often.

12. Don’t Stop Predicting
 Just like before you read
the story, continue to
make predictions.
 Do you have to adjust
your first prediction?
 Your predictions may
change as you read more
information, and that’s
not a bad thing.

13. Find the Answer to Your Questions
 As you read, you may become a little bit confused
about something in the text.
 Go back and reread parts of the text that confuse you.
 Clarifying your questions helps you leave with a better
understanding of the text when you finish reading.

14. Be sure to use do take these steps after reading the text!

15. Look Back Through The Text
 Think about whether or
not you understood the
text.
 Consider rereading if you
had difficulty
understanding parts of
the text.

16. Compare What You Thought Would
Happen to What You Read
 Reflect on the text
 What did you read?
Were your predictions
correct?

17. Summarize what you Read
 Write down or talk about what you read.
 What were the main points?
 Good readers revisit and write/talk about what they
read.

18. Compare With Prior Knowledge
 Think about what you
knew prior to reading
the text.
 Now compare it to what
you read in the text.
What’s something knew
you learned?

19. Why did the author write the text
 Think about why the text was written.
 Was it to entertain, to inform, ect.

20. References
 Teaching Reading to Students Who Are At Risk or
Have Disabilities
 https://openclipart.org/search/?query=reading
 http://www.clipartpanda.com/categories/free-clip-art-
children-reading-books