Fix Up Strategies

 

Make a connection between the text and your life, 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’ve read

 

Reread

 

Notice patterns in text structure

 

Adjust your reading rate: slow down or speed up

 

Adapted from:  Tovani, C. I Read It, But I Don’t Get It.