Reading Comprehension Strategies

Reading comprehension strategies are "conscious and flexible plans that readers apply and adapt to a variety of texts and tasks" (Pearson, Roehler, Dole, and Duffy). Accomplished readers engage in them in order to better understand, learn from, and remember what they read. Digging Reading teaches the nine reading comprehension strategies listed below.

• Having a Purpose
• Recognizing Text Structure
• Using Prior Knowledge
• Making Inferences
• Questioning
• Predicting
• Determining What Is Important
• Summarizing
• Being Metacognitive

Hear Dr. Michael Graves, the academic advisor for Digging Reading, discuss reading comprehension strategies. (1.66 MB Flash movie)

See how the nine strategies are sequenced within Digging Reading.