Strategies for

reading comprehension
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Goals
•comprehension
Recognize the importance of reading

•comprehension
Mention and review the four types of reading
strategies
•comprehension
Participate in interactive reading
activities
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Aim
Our main objective should be for the student to
enjoy reading, perceiving it as a fun activity .
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Strategies
ability enables the reader interact with the
Reading to

text and obtain , use and evaluate the information

contained in it.

“When you understand what you read you learn. If you read for pleasure,
the process is not intentional but you are still learning” Anonymous
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Reading
Complex cognitive activity that begins with the
decoding of signs and ends with the understanding of the
text globally.
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A bit of
today what children and adults
“ Anything we do is
did in ancient Egypt, Greece or Rome and whatever we do

today to extract and apply meaning in a text is exactly

the same". Anonymous
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To you,
Our ambition should be to serve as
facilitators so that students fall in love with
reading and achieve their understanding by fostering a
positive attitude towards it.

“Talking about mandatory reading is like talking about mandatory happiness, an

unattainable and impossible concept” Jorge Luis Borges
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Reading comprehension strategies can be
divided into four main groups
• Pre-reading strategies
• Strategies during reading
• Strategies when finishing reading
• General strategies to promote reading and its
comprehension
 reading:
• Read and discuss the title
• Read titles, subtitles, headers, footers
photos and notes below
• Observe and discuss the images
• Search unknown words in the dictionary
• Find related information
• Ask preliminary questions about the text
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reading:

• Write a prologue
• Set predictions
• make inferences
• Watch related movie
• Access the internet in search of information
• Develop hypotheses
• Make a mystery puzzle
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The
s e t c r t a or t a egies
• Execute l during
r e 3 c t t the
ip u o r s a d : e reading (previous
reading, slow and thorough reading, synthesis and assimilation
reading)
• Observe images.
• Read in fragments
• Distinguish facts from opinions
• Read aloud and silently
• Provide participation in reading (sounds, dramas...)
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The
s e t c r t a or t a egies during reading:

• Write reflective
journal while reading
• Recognize own emotions and those of the characters
• Establish causes and effects
• Search keywords
• Understand unknown words due to context in reading
• Underline and/or highlight ideas
• Con le st c ru t i u rp r o aesías or related songs
• Guess what could happen from…
• Develop related murals
• Mention values presented by the reading
• Develop order of events
• Identify elements of the story: characters, setting, conflict,
climax and outcome.
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egies at the end of reading

• Change the ending and/or beginning of the story

• Make puppets or related puppets
• Add characters to the story
• Compare and contrast film with written text
• Perform and identify on time line
• Make diagrams and/or concept maps
• paraphrase paragraphs
• Focus antagonistically
• Provide reading options
• Free choice, reading for pleasure
• Establish weekly reading spaces (40-60 min.)
• Form flow of ideas on topics of interest.
• Access the G int e e n rn e etr e a n le search for
readings
• Prepare extracurricular activities (tours, dinners, dramas...)
• Develop reading clubs and book exchanges
• Books should not be too long so as not to
• Carry out activities inside and outside the classroom
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Below, we will explore and put into practice some of

the aforementioned strategies.
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