Reading strategy What this strategy means
Evaluate and draw conclusions
Developing ideas, forming your own opinions (what you think) and making decisions based on what you have read.
Preview and predict
Previewing is looking for clues to help you understand what you are about to read. Predicting is deciding what may happen next.
Restate and summarise
Retelling and shortening what you have read.
How to use this strategy
Ask yourself questions and decide on your answer. Ask yourself if you agree with what you are reading, or which opinion is the correct one. You must be able to give reasons for your conclusions.
Look at the title, headings and any pictures to get an idea of what you are about to read. Use clues from the passage to make a sensible guess as to what may happen in the story.
In your own words restate the information using key words, facts and main and supporting ideas. You might want to shorten the information or put it in another form such as a table. Use key words and main ideas to check or show that you have understood the information.
Use visual clues
Finding meaning in pictures and images.
Visualise/imagine and respond
Picturing in your mind what you are reading, and saying how you feel about it. Trying to understand the values and the issues in the text and explaining why you feel the way you do.
Make inferences Making a logical guess based on the passage or on your prior knowledge. Reading “between the lines” .
Read for pleasure Reading simply because you enjoy it.
Analyse and synthesise
Analysing is looking for deeper meaning by breaking down what you have read into smaller parts that can be easily understood. Synthesising is bringing everything together to form a whole.
Characteristics of confident readers
Working backwards from where learners should be at the end of the Intermediate Phase, it is helpful to break down the characteristics of a happy and confident reader:
The learner enjoys reading a wide
variety of texts and is able to: • read confidently, both out loud and alone
• read subject matter and context 24
Look for clues and symbols in pictures, diagrams and photographs, and interpret how colour, design and images have been used to make meaning and create an effect.
Think about your reactions to what you are reading and ask yourself why you feel the way you do. You must be able to explain your feelings about what you have read and give reasons for your attitude.
When you want to work out what a new word means or need to figure out the hidden message in a text, use the context of a sentence and the passage as a whole to make a logical guess.
Use all your reading skills to make sense of the text and to enjoy the reading experience.
When you read, you look for themes and messages the author is sharing with you.
After you have analysed, bring all the bits of information together so that you can understand the whole.
• select books, magazines, comics and even newspapers to read for pleasure
• read and make use of textbooks considered appropriate for the Grade
• choose at times complex and challenging reading matter (for example encyclopaedias not always aimed at children, or novels and biographies that require persistence and interpretation).
associated with all learning areas across the curriculum, both in class and at home (without assistance)
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