Strategies for Constructing Meaning
and Monitoring Understanding
The strategies--predicting, questioning, clarifying, and summarizing--help students construct meaning from text and monitor their reading to ensure that they are understanding what they read. Duplicate the set of cards below, developed by Kathie Babigian, as a helpful guide for students.
I think ____________________________
I bet ______________________________
I wonder __________________________
I predict ________________________
- Let's look at the title and all the visual clues on the page. What
do you think we will be reading about?
- Thinking about what we have read and discussed, what do you think might
I'm curious about _______________
I wonder _____________________
- One question I had about what I read was...
- What question(s) can you ask about what you read?
- What were you thinking about as you were reading?
This is confusing to me. I need to ________ (reread, slow down, look at
the pictures or graphs, try to figure out this word, etc.
What I'm thinking is __________________ but that isn't making sense.
I need to ______________________________.
- One of the words I wasn't sure about was
- What other words do we know that we can use in place of ...?
- What words or ideas need clarifying for you?
In my own words, this is about ___________________________
The main point was _____________________________________
The author wanted me to remember ____________________________________
- What does the author want us to remember or learn from this passage?
- What is the most important information in this passage?
- What kind of "teacher " question can you ask about the main
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