Skill Builder

Reading Comprehension

How to make the most of your reading

• Making Connections to Text
• Reading Strategies handout
• Reading Comprehension Strategies
• Seven Strategies of Highly Effective Readers
  
• SQ3R Reading Strategy
• SQ3R one page summary
• Tip Sheet SQ3R
• Notice and Note Signposts for Reading
• Fiction
• Non-fiction
• summary one page poster
  
• Skimming and Scanning
• Skimming and Scanning to Preview Text
  
• Skimming vs Scanning
• Clues for Using Context to Find Meaning
• Tips for Reading Literary Texts
• Tips for Reading Informational Texts
• Tips for Reading Graphical Texts
  
• Clues for Finding Answers in the Text
• Drawing Conclusions
• Most and Least Important Ideas example
• Questions for Expository Text
• Read Closely Guiding Questions
  
• Reading Closely for Details Checklist
• Types of Organizational Patterns (and how to find them)
  
• Would a series of posters you could print and put up in your learning space be helpful? Check these Reading Strategies Posters out.