Basic strategies for

developing literacy
 1. Making connections
Taking meaning from text
Connections can be divided into three categories:
Text to self: The connections readers make to their own
knowledge and experiences
Text to text: The connections readers make to another story or
book (even a movie or song!)
Text to world: The connections readers make to the community
and world around them
2. Visualizing
Visualizing is an important reading strategy that good
readers use to help create mental images or movies in
their minds to represent the ideas that they read in the
text.
When students visualize as they read
they:
•Become an active and alert reader, making predictions as they read.
•Notice details and specific language in the text.
•Better understand key story elements.
•Understand character emotions and make connections with them.
•Recall and summarize the text easily.
•Self-monitor their own comprehension.
•Make inferences as they read.
•Get into the world of the book.
 3. Inferring
Discursive texts often seem very difficult
to read. Generally, writers begin by
taking a position and then they discuss
arguments supporting and opposing this
position.
Questioning
The action of asking someone questions,
especially in an official context.
showing an interest in learning new
things.
Question connect a reader to text
 Journaling
gerund or present participle

Activate your prior knowledge about the

content
 Determining importance

Knowing the authors intent for writing and

understanding the big ideas of the text
6. Synthesizing