Reading Comprehenion Strategies

In understanding the topic, main idea, or even supporting details of a text, you should be able to :
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Make connections, They think about what the story reminds them of in their own lives
Visualize, They think about how the story relates to their own lives
Infer, think about other books they have read
Determine Importance, They think about other books they have read
Synthesize, They think about things that happen in the world

To make a good connection about what your read, you canask the following questions and step:
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Making connections
Can understanding what is happening
Can remember the story and the story is more interesting

Visualizing
How Do Good Readers Visualize
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Create picture in their head

Make the words on the page real and concrete
Create a movie of the text in their head
Build meaning as they go by visualizing
Create images from all of their senses

To make a better visualization connection about what your read, you can do the following steps:
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Form a picture of a character or the setting in your mind. Add supporting details to the writers

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description.
Imagine the charactrs feature. Picture the plot in time and space.
Imagine process and explanation happening visually. Use nouns , verbs and adjectives to create

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pictures, diagrams or other mental images.

Enhances meaning with mental pictures
Link past experience to the words and ideas in the text
Enable me to place my self in the story
Strenghens my relationship to the text
Stimulates my imaginative thinking
Keeps me engaged with the text
Brings joy to my reading
Personalize reading
Allows the words to come alive