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Discover essential strategies for active reading with this comprehensive guide. Learn to visualize narratives by treating texts like vivid images and films, while actively listening to the sounds and rhythms of language. Encourage deeper understanding by questioning the material and connecting it to personal experiences. Enhance your predictive skills by contemplating multiple story outcomes and their real-life implications. Incorporate these techniques to take control of your reading experience and foster a deeper curiosity about the world around you.
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Active Reading A Guide and Tutorial September 13, 2012 Strategies
VISUALIZE • Active VISUALIZERS… • Deal with text as if it were a picture! • Consciously imagine stories as photographic snapshots or movies! • Focus their attention on the physical details of a setting, action, or character!
LISTEN • Active LISTENERS… • Approach text with sensitivity to sounds, both expressed and implied! • Consciously imagine the background noise of a story! • Imagine precisely how words and sentences are pronounced! • Pay attention to authors’ suggestions!
QUESTION • Active QUESTIONERS… • Constantly try to understand text, actions, or characters more deeply! • Pay as much attention to the things they don’t know as to the things they do! • Read slowly enough to notice when they are unsure of something! • Constantly ask “WHY”!
CONNECT • Active CONNECTORS… • Find ways of placing themselves within a piece of writing! • Relate their own experiences with those of characters in a story, however simple they may be! • Constantly find ways of identifying elements of fantasy and reality! • Will emerge from their reading more curious about the world!
PREDICT • Active PREDICTORS… • Are never satisfied with where they leave a story, nor with where the story leaves them! • Imagine various outcomes of a given action! • Develop a firm understanding of consequences in real life! • Flex their creative muscle constantly while reading!
Put all these ACTIVE READING STRATEGIES together… …and take control of your reading experience!