Guides you to prepare adequately before reading, helps you read in ways to improve comprehension, and guides you to respond in ways to retain information to fulfill your purpose in reading
P-R-R strategy
1. Prepare
2. Read
3. Respond
Preparing to read
Identify the author(s) and work
Make predictions
Establish a purpose
Preread
Activate previous knowledge
Raise questions
Reading phase
Write
Annotate
Monitor comprehension
Respond step
Reflect
Review
Active reading
Marking the text to support reading, monitoring comprehension
Chunking strategy
Breaking down the text into smaller parts to aid in paraphrasing, organizing, and synthesizing ideas/information
struggling readers adopt or practice chunkingstrategy
SQ5R
A method to reading developed by psychologist Francis P. Robinson of Ohio State University
SQ5R approach
1. Survey
2. Question
3. Read
4. Respond
5. Record
6. Recite
7. Review
Survey
Examine the title, headings and subheadings, read the preface or introduction, study the table of contents, check for appendices, bibliography, glossary, and scan the pages for graphs, charts, and other figures or illustrations
Question
Raise questions to fulfill your purpose in reading, turn titles and headings into questions
Read
Take notes, underline or mark words/phrases, answer questions raised earlier
Respond
Reflect on how new information connects to what you already know and what is important to your life
Record
Take notes, underline or encircle words/phrases
Recite
Make a summary and recite the key ideas in your own words, reproduce the content and explain to someone else or yourself
Review
Look over the notes made and check the answers to your questions, revise your markings
Sequencing
Guides the learner on the sequence of events of a story, biography, incident, police report, diary, or news story, determines which happens first, second, third, fourth, and so on until it ends
Sequencing skill is appropriate for all ages
Mastery of sequencing
Enables the student to retell a story previously read, narrate a movie recently watched or report an incident, comprehend and organize the previously read material
Sequencing aids in problem-solving across disciplines, including comprehension in Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Literature
Comparison and contrast is equally important as sequencing
Comparison
Getting the similarities
Contrast
Getting the differences
Comparison and contrast makes you think critically and analytically
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In reading comparison and contrast materials, you have to know the bases of comparing and contrasting, in what way they are similar and in what way they are different
Comparison
Tells us to get the similarities
Contrast
Tells us to get the differences
In reading comparison and contrast materials, you have to know the bases of comparing and contrasting
Comparison and contrast help us make wisedecisions
Cause
The reason something happened
Effect
A result of what happened
Developing cause and effect skill
Guides you in understanding why did it happen and why makes it happen
Summarizing
Reducing text to one-third or one-quarter its original size as long as it clearly articulates the author's meaning and retains main idea
Summarizing involves stating a work's thesis and mainideas in a simple, brief, and accurate expression
Summarizing aims to present the key points of a passage or selection in words to provide the essential parts of a story passage, selection, etc.
Fact
A statement that is true and can be proven and verified objectively
Opinion
A statement that holds an element of belief; it tells how someone feels
An opinion is not always true and cannot be proven