The Reading strategies 

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The Reading strategies are plans or methods that can be used or taught to facilitate reading proficiency.

Here are some examples of the most common reading strategies:

• Predicting: Use the text to decide what will happen next.  Readers confirm or deny predictions with support from the text. Using the Think, pair, share technique, has students form predictions, share with a partner, and participate in a class discussion.

• Inferring: Give a logical guess based on the facts or evidence presented.  Use prior knowledge to help the reader figure out more than the words say. Take a sentence from the text.  Have students state the explicit meaning.  Then have students guess the inferential meaning. 

• Paraphrase:  A restatement of a text or passage giving the meaning inanother form, as for clearness; rewording. A paraphrase typically explains or clarifies the text that is being paraphrased. For example, "The signal was red" might be paraphrased as "The train was not allowed to proceed." When accompanying the original statement, a paraphrase is usually introduced with averbum dicendi​—​a declaratory expression to signal the transition to the paraphrase. For example, in "The signal was red, that is, the train was not allowed to proceed," the that is signals the paraphrase that follows.

• Skimming and Scanning: Assist the reader in getting specific information from the text. Skimming is reading quickly to get the general idea or gist of a section Scanning is reading quickly to locate specific information.  Brainstorm a list of textual clues that will aid in skimming/scanning, such as boldfaced type, capital letters, dates, key words, etc

• Brainstorm Think of several ideas.  Generate a list that includes all possible ideas or solutions. 

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