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Smart Reading
Strategies to improve Reading Comprehension
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Before Reading
- Strategy 1 SQ3R
- Strategy 2 KWL
- Strategy 3 What Does It Mean?
- Strategy 4 Think-Pair-Share
During Reading
- Strategy 5 Analyzing Text Structure
- Strategy 6 Main Idea/Supporting Details
- Strategy 7 Ordering/Sequencing
- Strategy 8 Compare/Contrast
- Strategy 9 Cause/Effect
- Strategy 10 Using Context Clues
- Strategy 11 Distinguishing Fact from Opinion
- Strategy 12 Inferring
- Strategy 13 Visualizing
- Strategy 14 "Reading" Photography
- Strategy 15 Interpreting Political Cartoons
- Strategy 16 Interpreting Graphs
- Strategy 17 Interpreting a Chart or Table
- Strategy 18 Reading Maps
After Reading
- Strategy 19 Summarizing/Paraphrasing
- Strategy 20 Synthesizing
- Strategy 21 Testing