Reading Comprehenion Strategies

In understanding the topic, main idea, or even supporting details of a text, you should be able to :
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Make connections
Visualize
Infer
Determine Importance
Synthesize

To make a good connection about what your read, you canask the following questions and step:
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Is the subject familiar? Do the characters resemble familiar people? Have you learn about the concept

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from school, home, or other experiences?

Is the genre or style familiar? Does it relates to any genre you have once studied?
Write down any similarities between the current text with your experience and genre you have known.

Visualizing
How Do Good Readers Visualize
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Create picture in their head

Make the words on the page real and concrete
Create a movie of the text in their head
Build meaning as they go by visualizing
Create images from all of their senses

To make a better visualization connection about what your read, you can do the following steps:
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Form a picture of a character or the setting in your mind. Add supporting details to the writers

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description.
Imagine the charactrs feature. Picture the plot in time and space.
Imagine process and explanation happening visually. Use nouns , verbs and adjectives to create

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pictures, diagrams or other mental images.

Enhances meaning with mental pictures
Link past experience to the words and ideas in the text
Enable me to place my self in the story
Strenghens my relationship to the text
Stimulates my imaginative thinking
Keeps me engaged with the text
Brings joy to my reading
Personalize reading
Allows the words to come alive