Strategies to "Fix Up" Confusion
- Make a connection between your life and the text, your knowledge of the world, or another text.
- Make a prediction.
- Stop and think about what you have already read.
- Ask yourself a question and try to answer it.
- Reflect in writing on what you have read.
- Visualize.
- Use print conventions.
- Retell what you have read.
- Reread.
- Notice patterns in text structure.
- Adjust your reading rate: slow down or speed up.
