Vickie Dawson
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vdawson@cvsd.org

Reading Strategies

 Fix-Up Strategies help students with decoding words while they are reading. 

• Break the word into parts.
• Look and listen for letter patterns.
• Reread the sentence. What word would sound right?
• Skip the word and come back to it.
• Look at the beginning letter(s).  Get your mouth ready.
• Take a running start.
• Think about the story.  What would make sense?
• Look for key words or picture clues.
• Look for little words in big words.

Comprehension Strategies help students think about and understand what they read.  Good readers will:

• make predictions (before, during, and after)
• activate schema (background knowledge)
• know how to decode but don't "sound out" everything
• ask questions (clarifying or pondering)
• visualize (during reading)
• make connections (during) text-self, text-text, text-world
• determine important information (during and after reading)
• make inferences (during and after reading)
• synthesize information