1. Visualize, or make a movie in their head.
2. Use Background Knowledge before, during, and after reading. Make connections about what you are reading to your own life, things in the world, or other books you have read.
3. Ask Questions while they are reading.
4. Make Predictions while they are reading and try to figure things out and make conclusions.
5. Determine the Most Important Ideas and Themes while reading.
6. Synthesize Information or keep track of their thinking while reading in order to get the overall meaning. This is thinking about the book sometimes when you are doing other things.
7. Use Fix-up Strategies when they know they aren’t getting it:
a. rereading
b. skip ahead
c. ask questions
d. look up a word
e. read the passage aloud
f. figure out how the text is organized
g. speed up or slow down your reading
It doesn't matter how old you are or whether you are reading fiction or non-fiction or whether you are reading because you have to or you want to. All Good Readers do these things.
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