Reading Strategies
Skilled readers use active strategies — such as predicting, questioning, visualising, and summarising — to make meaning from complex texts.
What You Need to Know
Key Concept Diagram
Predicting involves using clues from the text and prior knowledge to anticipate what will happen next
Questioning means actively asking yourself "who, what, where, when, why, how" while reading
Visualising creates a mental picture of the text to improve understanding and memory
Summarising means identifying the most important ideas in a text and restating them briefly
Key Vocabulary
Inference
A conclusion drawn from evidence in the text and background knowledge, not directly stated
Visualise
To create a mental image based on what you are reading
Summarise
To briefly restate the main ideas of a text in your own words
Predict
To use clues from the text to make an educated guess about what will happen next
Knowledge Check
Select the correct answer for each question. Click "Check Answer" to see if you are right.
Question 1
A reader makes a guess about what will happen next based on clues in the text. Which strategy are they using?
Question 2
You are reading and you pause to create a mental image of the scene. Which strategy is this?
Question 3
The text does not directly say that Mia is scared, but it describes her hands trembling and her heart racing. What reading strategy helps you understand she is scared?
Key Concepts Summary
- ●Predicting involves using clues from the text and prior knowledge to anticipate what will happen next
- ●Questioning means actively asking yourself "who, what, where, when, why, how" while reading
- ●Visualising creates a mental picture of the text to improve understanding and memory
- ●Summarising means identifying the most important ideas in a text and restating them briefly