1. How to keep engaged with your reading to
improve comprehension:

2. Making connections helps
readers!
 Remember the following techniques to make
connections:
• Relate to characters.
• Visualize.
• Avoid boredom...if you start to get bored, take a short break.
• Pay attention, take your reading seriously.
• Listen to others’ ideas about the reading.
• Read actively.
• Remember what they read.
• Ask questions.

3. Text-to-Reader Connections:
How to relate to your reading
 Text to self: Connections between the text
and the reader’s experiences and memories.
The more experiences and memories a
reader has about a topic, the easier the
material is to read.
 Text to world: Connections the reader
makes between the text and what he knows
about the world (facts and information).
 Text to text: Connections the reader makes
between two or more types of texts. The
reader may make connections relative to
plot, content, structure, or style.

4. Voices: What you “hear” when
you are reading
 Reciting Voice - The voice a reader hears when he is only
reciting the words and not drawing meaning from the text.
 Conversation Voice - The voice that has a conversation
with the text. It represents the reader’s thinking as he/she
talks back to the text in an interactive way. It can take two
forms:
 Interacting Voice - This voice encourages the reader to
infer, make connections, ask questions, and synthesize
information.
 Distracting Voice - This voice pulls the reader away from
the text.
 Your goal to make the most effective
use of your reading is to strive for the
Interacting Conversation Voice!

5. Questioning/I Wonder…
 Questions can be more powerful than
answers. Good readers ask questions
throughout the reading process: before,
during, and after reading. Readers who ask
questions when they read assume
responsibility for their learning and improve
their comprehension in four ways:
 By interacting with text.
 By motivating themselves to read.
 By clarifying information in the text.
 By inferring beyond the literal meaning.

6. Sources:
 “Academic Support Guides: Reading
Comprehension.” Cuesta College.
http://academic.cuesta.edu/acasupp/as/300IN
DEX.HTM
 Krieg, Elaine G. Strategies for College
Readers. New York: Longman, 2008. Print.
 “Study Skills Activities: Reading as a Study
Skill.” Montana State Literacy Resources: A
Service of the National Institute of Literacy.
http://www.nwlincs.org/mtlincs/pilotproject/stu
dyskills/studyskillsindex.htm