Enhance Content Literacy by Using Strategies: List of Possible Reading Strategies

When you plan strategies for your classroom it is important to keep your students in the loop. Let them know the names of the strategies. Help them to understand how the strategies support what good readers do. This will help them to become independent readers and thinkers as they think about becoming better at reading rather than just being satisfied with minimal reading skill. When you plan strategies for your classroom also consider the ones that you would repeat because repetition reinforces the strategies to become automatic. Good readers automatically root through their arsenal of strategies and make a decision about how to tackle the reading task presented to them and/or chosen by them. Here is a list of possible strategies worth repeating for reinforcement. 

Vocabulary Strategies Definition Map Graphic Organizers KIM Miscellaneous Vocabulary Strategies   Rivets Concept of Definition Map Vocabulary Bingo Vocabulary Journal Vocabulary Notebook Vocabulary Overview Word Map Word Sorts (images) Pre-reading Strategies Anticipation Guide  Content Area Reading Inventory DRTA (Directed Reading/Thinking Activity) KWL (worksheet) Open House Read Around the Text (worksheet) During Reading Strategies Comprehension Monitoring Four Resources Model (worksheets)  Student Monitoring of Comprehension Student Checklist for Monitoring Comprehension Data Chart Describing Circle Read, Rate, Reread Chart Think Aloud After Reading Strategies Biography Poems Bubble Map Cause & Effect Graphic Organizers Cluster Graphic Organizer Collaborative Summarizing Sheet Concept Ladder Content Graphic Organizer  Elements of Fiction Event Map Fact Chart Flow Chart GIST Statement Magnet Summaries Main Idea with Supporting Details Map Multiple Cause Map Multiple Effect Map Narrowing Triangle QAR (Question/Answer/Relationship) RAFT Reciprocal Reading/Teaching Relationship Map Semantic Map Spider Map Story Map T Chart Venn Diagram Viewpoints