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Create Mental Images |
Determine the Most Important Ideas or Themes |
| Use Background Knowledge | Synthesize Information |
| Ask Questions | Use Fix-UpStrategies |
| Make Inferences | Strategies taken from pp. 5-6, 7 Keys to Comprehension, Susan Zimmerman and Chryse Hutchins, 2003. |
Visible Ingredients: Surface Structures Invisible Ingredients: Deep
Structures
| 1. Letter/Sound knowledge
(phonics)
· Reading · Recognizing sounds that go with letters 2. Word knowledge (lexical) · Recognizing words without needing to “sound out” · Identifying whole words rapidly 3. Structure of language (syntax) · Hearing when sentences sound right and when they don’t · Recognizing correct grammar and punctuation |
4. Word meanings/associations
(semantics)
· Understanding the meanings of words in different contexts · Noting the shade of meaning in words and phrases 5. Background knowledge (schema) · Using background knowledge to enhance understanding · Knowing whether there is a need to build background knowledge in order to understand 6. Knowledge of audience/purpose (pragmatic) · Understanding the purpose for specific reading · Reading differently depending upon the purpose Adapted from "Toward an Interactive Model of Reading": Strategies taken from p. 171, 7 Keys to Comprehension, Susan Zimmerman and Chryse Hutchins, 2003. |
| Reread | Drawing Inferences | Seeking Help | Trying to get a Mental Image |
| Reading Ahead | Making Predictions | Stopping to Think | Looking at Sentence Structure |
| Raising New Questions | Figuring Out Unknown Words | Connecting the Reading to Background Knowledge | Inspecting Pictures and other Text Features |
| Reading the Author's Note | Writing About the Confusing Parts | Thinking About the Message | Defining the Purpose for Reading |
Strategies taken from p. 163, 7 Keys to Comprehension, Susan Zimmerman and Chryse Hutchins, 2003
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