4th Grade Reading - Identify Reading Strategies

Make Connections

• Make connections between text and knowledge and experience

Utilize Structure

• Recognize the way information in a story or article is organized

Vocabulary Strategies

• Identify and use context clues to understand unfamiliar words

Self-Monitor

• Check understanding of a selection by questioning, predicting, clarifying, etc.

Graphic Strategies

• Use a chart or diagram to order steps in a process

Formulate Questions

• Engage in a thinking process while reading in an effort to understand characters and events

Apply Genre Criteria

• Determine the characteristics of types of literature (i.e., poetry, prose, and drama)

Summarize

• Summarize a story

Synthesize Across Text

• Bring together various types of information from different sources