Strategy

Check if used

Evidence of strategy use

Previewing: scanning for bold-face

terms, headings, repeated words

Visualizing: picturing concepts, processes, order of events.

Monitoring for meaning: frequently self-check for comprehension.

Questioning: writing down questions and answers found in text.

Reading charts, graphs, captions: finding information within graphic representations.

Monitoring distractions: reducing exterior and interior interruptions of reading.

Rereading: returning to parts of the text where comprehension breaks down.

Review: check for main idea and details to remember important information from text.