Content Area Reading Strategies
Activate
Prior Knowledge
Adjust
Reading Rate/Rereading
Ask
Questions: Before, During, and After Reading
Classify
or Categorize Information
Compare
and Contrast Ideas
Distinguish
Facts from Opinions
Identify
and Analyze Text Structure
Identify
Author’s Purpose: Why Did the Author Write the Selection?
Identify
Author’s Viewpoint: What Does the Author Think?
Identify
Main Ideas and Supporting Details
Make
Inferences and Draw Conclusions
Make
Generalizations
Make
and Refine Predictions
Paraphrase/Retell
Recognize
Cause and Effect Relationships
Sequence
Events
Summarize
Information
Synthesize
New Information
Use
Context Clues to Decipher Unfamiliar Words
Visualize
Images From Text
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