Interpretive+Reading+strategies

Interpretive Reading Strategies
__** Facilitating Reading **__


 * Pre-teaching/Preparation Stage (develops skills in anticipation and prediction; activatesappropriate scripts/schemata)**
 * Brainstorm ideas/vocabulary likely to be in text
 * Look at visuals, headlines, titles, charts
 * Predicting or hypothesizing based on the title or topic sentences


 * Skimming/Scanning (getting the gist/locating specific information)**
 * Get the gist of short readings, paragraphs or graphic material
 * Identify topic sentences and main ideas
 * Select the best paraphrase from multiple-choice options of main idea/conclusion
 * Match subtitles with paragraphs
 * Fill in charts or forms with key ideas
 * Create titles or headlines
 * Make global judgments about a text


 * Decoding/Intensive Reading (guessing the meaning of unknown words or phrases based on context)**
 * How to interpret the force of connectors, determine the relationship among sentences and sentence elements. Best used at the early stages of language learning when students are learning to read rather than reading to learn.
 * Identify all the words that describe, that give advice, etc.
 * What words does the author use to link ideas?


 * Comprehension Stage**
 * Multiple Choice, T/F, Short answer, fill-in-the blank
 * Comprehension questions (who, what, when, where, why, how)


 * Transfer (Use the information from the text in another mode)**
 * Create your own brochure.
 * Give an oral/written/multimedia report with visual support on the topic of your reading.
 * Create a multimedia mashup interpreting the text.
 * Create a movie.

Source:[|Ohio Foreign Language Standards]

__Previewing__

 * 1) ==== Read the title and all subtitles. ====
 * 2) ==== Read the introduction or first paragraph. ====
 * 3) ==== Read any boldfaced text. ====
 * 4) ==== Look at any pictures, charts, graphs, or diagrams, and their captions. ====
 * 5) ==== Read any questions at the end of the chapter. ====
 * 6) ==== Read the summary or the last paragraph. ====
 * 7) ==== Identify the main idea and one or two minor points. ====
 * 8) ==== Relate these ideas to what you already know. ====

__Skimming__

 * 1) ==== Read the first paragraph carefully. ====
 * 2) ==== Read the first sentence in every following paragraph. ====
 * 3) ==== Read the last paragraph. ====
 * 4) ==== Reread the summary. ====

__ Active Reading __

 * 1) ==== Chunk the reading into small parts. ====
 * 2) ==== Highlight the book or mark it with comments and questions. ====
 * 3) ==== Take notes on the reading. ====
 * 4) ==== Transfer your notes to a separate piece of paper. ====
 * 5) ==== Create 3 x 5" study cards that you will study daily. ====

__Summarizing__

 * 1) ==== Briefly summarize the material, in your own words. ====
 * 2) ==== Add your summaries to your class notes. ====
 * 3) ==== Think about what test questions could be asked on the material. ====
 * 4) ==== Relate the material to what you already know. ====