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Reading Strategies …
Reading Strategies 
Comprehension: The goal of Reading . Comprehension, or extracting meaning from what you read, is the ultimate goal of reading . The process of comprehension is both interactive and strategic.
General Strategies for Reading Comprehension:
Using Prior Knowledge/Previewing
When students preview text, they tap into what they already know that will help them to understand the text they are about to read.
Predicting As they read, they may mentally revise their prediction as they gain more information.
Identifying the Main Idea and Summarization requires that students determine what is important and then put it in their own words. Implicit in this process is trying to understand the author’s purpose in writing the text.
Questioning
Asking and answering questions about text is another strategy that helps students focus on the meaning of text.
Making Inferences
In order to make inferences about something that is not explicitly stated in the text, students must learn to draw on prior knowledge and recognize clues in the text itself.
Visualizing Readers can take advantage of illustrations that are embedded in the text or create their own mental images or drawings when reading text without illustrations.
Strategies for Reading Comprehension: Expository Text.
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Main Idea/Summarization
A summary briefly captures the main idea of the text and the key details that support the main idea. Students must understand the text in order to write a good summary that is more than a repetition of the text itself.
Graphic Organizers
Graphic organizers provide visual representations of the concepts in expository text. Representing ideas and relationships graphically can help students understand and remember them.
Strategies for Reading Comprehension: Narrative Text.
Story Maps Story grammar includes: Setting, Characters,Plot, Theme.
Retelling
Teachers can encourage students to go beyond literally recounting the story to drawing their own conclusions about it.
Prediction
Teachers can ask readers to make a prediction about a story based on the title and any other clues that are available, such as illustrations.
Answering Comprehension Questions
Asking students different types of questions requires that they find the answers in different ways