1. Preview is a strategy help students identify what the text is about and tap into their prior knowledge about the topic.
2. Click and clunk: Students use the process of click and clunk to monitor their comprehension of the text.
3. Get the gist: Getting the gist means that students are able to state the main idea of a paragraph or cluster of paragraphs in their own words, as succinctly as possible. In this way students learn how to synthesize information, taking a larger
chunk of text and distilling it into a key concept or idea. Students are taught to
identify the most important who or what in the paragraph, and then to identify the
most important information they read about the who or what, leaving out details.
Many teachers require that students state the main point of the paragraphs in 10
words or less.
4. Wrap-up: Students learn to “wrap-up” by formulating questions and an-
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