ABCs For Active Reading
These active reading strategies come from Tutor Charlotte. Try them with your student this week! Want a PDF? Click here to download the images below.
A: Ask questions
- Who, What, Where, When, Why, How?
- Ask your student to make a prediction about what could happen in the story based on the pictures.
- Ask your student to count the number of objects on the page, e.g., number of fish, cars, people, etc.
B: Build Vocabulary
- Ask what words mean.
- Connect words to pictures.
- Connect new words to words they already know.
- Look for sight words that your student is working on or pick a word that they need to know such as it, was, am, are, they and read and read that word whenever it appears.
- Have students identify rhyming words and ask them to think of other words that rhyme with that word.
C: Connect to the Student’s World
- Ask students what the story makes them think about.
- Ask the student how they are similar or different from the characters in the story.
- Ask why characters in the book did what they did and if they have ever made similar choices.
- Ask students if they could change the story, how would they make it different.
