Reading Strategies

Active Reading

  • Active Reading: Critical Questioning (Anita Cruse)

  • Active Reading Strategy: Marginal Annotation (Anita Cruse)

  • Annotating (Elizabeth O’Scanlon)

  • Concept Maps (Marcia Warrecker)

  • Paraphrasing (Elizabeth O’Scanlon)

  • RAP for Paraphrasing (Gerry Lewin)

  • Responding and Reflecting on Text (Liz O’Scanlon)

  • Scanning (Elizabeth O’Scanlon)

  • Skimming (Elizabeth O’Scanlon)

    • Story Elements

  • Reader’s Theater: Finding The Drama In Stories (Marcia Warrecker)

  • Story Elements: Character (Sheila Wiley)

  • Story Elements: Plot (Sheila Wiley)

  • Story Elements: Point of View (Sheila Wiley)

  • Story Elements: Setting (Sheila Wiley)

  • Story Elements: Theme (Sheila Wiley)

    • Understanding

  • Context Clues (Marcia Warrecker)

  • Distinction between a Summary and an Analysis (Clara Oropeza)

  • Inferential and Literal Comprehension (English 70, 103, 110 - Anita Cruse)

  • Inferential and Literal Interpretations (Anita Cruse)

  • Making Connections (Elizabeth O’Scanlon)

  • Predicting (Elizabeth O’Scanlon)

  • Predicting: Independent Directed Reading Thinking Activity (DRTA - Anita Cruse)

  • Re Quest Procedure for Improving Comprehension: Fiction (Marcia Warrecker)

  • Re Quest Procedure for Improving Comprehension: Non-Fiction (Marcia Warrecker)

  • Socratic Inquiry for Improved Reading Comprehension of Fiction (Marcia Warrecker)

  • Socratic Inquiry for Comprehension of Non-Fiction (Marcia Warrecker)

  • SQ5R (Gerry Lewin)

  • Storyboards: Connecting Images to Words (Marcia Warrecker)

  • Study Skills: Focusing Your Attention (Marcia Warrecker)

  • Summarizing (Elizabeth O’Scanlon)

  • Summarizing for ENG 70 (Elizabeth O’Scanlon)

  • Vocabulary Building: A Multimedia Approach (Marcia Warrecker)

  • Vocabulary Development Using Word Parts (Elizabeth O’Scanlon)