Reading Process
Welcome to our toolbox of strategies to teach literacy. To return to the literacy toolbox homepage, click here.
These strategies have been organized into six categories:
- Pre-Reading: Text Selection – Ability to identify appropriate texts.
- Pre-Reading: Planning the Reading – Ability to identify what you will need to learn throughout the active reading process.
- Active Reading: Annotation/ Note-taking – Ability to write comments, explanatory notes, and key findings about a text in a systematic way.
- Active Reading: Essential Vocabulary — Ability to identify and master terms essential to understanding a text.
- Post-reading: Enhancing comprehension — Ability to identify the central point and main supporting elements of a text.
- Post-reading: Academic Integrity — Ability to use and credit sources appropriately
Click each category to read or download related strategies.
Pre-Reading: Text Selection
Ability to identify appropriate texts. Back to menu
Pre-Reading: Planning the Reading
Ability to identify what you will need to learn throughout the active reading process. Back to menu
Active Reading: Annotation/ Note-taking
Ability to write comments, explanatory notes, and key findings about a text in a systematic way. Back to menu
Attachment for Active Reading: Annotation/Note-taking ex 3 (Provided for classroom use. For all other uses, contact gaierk@battelle.org):
Active Reading: Essential Vocabulary
Ability to identify and master terms essential to understanding a text. Back to menu
Attachment for Active Reading: Essential Vocabulary Example 1 (Provided for classroom use. For all other uses, contact gaierk@battelle.org):
Post-reading: Enhancing comprehension
Ability to identify the central point and main supporting elements of a text. Back to menu
Post-reading: Academic Integrity
Ability to use and credit sources appropriately. Back to menu
Attachment for Post-Reading: Academic Integrity Example 1 (Provided for classroom use. For all other uses, contact gaierk@battelle.org):