Reading Strategies

Here are some strategies that we are learning to use to help with our reading comprehension.

Term two will see room 19 begin to focus on the reading strategy "Inferring".

One of the guru's of literacy, Sheena Cameron, describes it like this:

"Inferring is being able to ‘read between the lines’, when the author implies something but doesn’t exactly state it. You need to use the clues in the text and your own prior knowledge to help you understand."