Overview

Reading strategies are purposeful techniques and mental tools that readers employ to construct meaning from text, monitor understanding, and overcome comprehension challenges. These strategies form a critical component of literacy development and evolve throughout a reader's educational journey.

Core Strategy Categories

Pre-Reading Strategies

• Setting clear purpose for reading
• text preview and scanning
• Activating prior knowledge
• Making predictions
• vocabulary review

During-Reading Strategies

• metacognition monitoring
• note-taking techniques
• visualization of content
• Making connections (text-to-self, text-to-text, text-to-world)
• questioning techniques

Post-Reading Strategies

• Summarization
• critical analysis
• Reflection and evaluation
• concept mapping
• Discussion and sharing

Developmental Progression

Beginning Readers

• phonics application
• Finger pointing while reading
• Picture clues utilization
• sight words recognition
• Basic comprehension monitoring

Intermediate Readers

• context clues usage
• inferencing skills
• Main idea identification
• reading fluency development
• text structure recognition

Advanced Readers

• critical literacy
• analytical reading
• synthesis of information
• research skills
• metacognitive strategies

Specific Techniques

SQ3R Method

1. Survey
2. Question
3. Read
4. Recite
5. Review

KWL Strategy

• What I Know
• What I Want to know
• What I Learned

Other Evidence-Based Approaches

• reciprocal teaching
• think-aloud protocol
• close reading
• annotation techniques

Application Contexts

Academic Reading

• textbook comprehension
• study skills
• note-taking systems
• test preparation

Recreational Reading

• reading engagement
• genre awareness
• reading motivation
• literary appreciation

Digital Reading

• digital literacy strategies
• online comprehension
• multimodal literacy
• screen reading techniques

Support and Intervention

Strategy Instruction

• explicit teaching
• modeling techniques
• guided practice
• independent application

Differentiation

• learning styles
• reading difficulties
• scaffolding techniques
• individualized instruction

Assessment and Monitoring

Strategy Use Evaluation

• reading assessments
• progress monitoring
• self-assessment
• strategy transfer

Cultural Considerations

• cultural relevance
• linguistic diversity
• multicultural literature
• culturally responsive teaching

Reading strategies are dynamic tools that evolve with reader proficiency and technological advancement. Their effective implementation requires systematic instruction, regular practice, and adaptation to individual reader needs and contexts.