Sentence Starters for Reading Comprehension Stratgies.

Sentence Starters for Reading Comprehension Strategies

·      Activating prior knowledge	Based on what I already know I think..... The illustrations tell me ..... about the text.
•      Self-monitoring	I am not sure what ..... means. I think that I will..... This section does not make sense to me. Maybe I could think about......
•      Predicting	I predict ...... because.... Based on the illustrations, I predict..... This picture makes me think that.... therefore....
•      Questioning	I wonder why, where, when, how, if, who...? What is the author trying to tell me......
•      Making connections	This reminds me of...... I think these ideas connect together because... I have read another book that reminds me of ....
•      Visualising	In my mind I can see.... I can imagine ......
•      Inferring	I already know that.... so I think..... I think that..... because ..... I think what is really going on is....
•      Summarising	So far I know.... In my own words the story is about.... The main idea in this story is......