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Making Sense
of what we read
Making Sense
of what we read
When students are reading, it is important that they have strategies they can use when thinking about, within, and beyond the text. Recognizing when their reading breaks down and knowing how to fix it empowers students to continually get better at reading.
These nine strategies provide students will different tools they can use independently to recognize when they are no longer comprehending text and what they can do about it.
Thinking About, Beyond,
and Within the Text
Thinking About, Beyond,
and Within the Text
Using reading strategies will assist students in achieving the goals of critically thinking about text.
Students in grades K-12 can access the reading strategies as they strengthen their phonemic awareness in order to grow as readers. Books are provided to students that are strategically designed to support where they are in their reading journey.
When reading to understand, students are engaging with text in three ways:
Thinking Within the Text: Readers efficiently and effectively understand what is on the page—the author's literal message.
Thinking Beyond the Text: Readers make inferences and put text ideas together in different ways to construct the text's meaning.
Thinking About the Text: Readers analyze and critique the author's craft.
Our students interact with text through annotation, an activity that requires them to write on the text or on sticky notes that captures their thoughts, ideas, questions, wonderings, predictions and inferences.
The first act of reading - making predictions - provides students with an invitation into the text as they examine what they know to predict what might happen next. Students consistently revisit and revise their predictions as more information reveals itself in the text.
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