Read for a Purpose

Be a strategic reader by establishing purpose, analyzing task, planning strategy, checking understanding, making connections and feflecting on process.

Use information to do or make something

Redefining questions and asking new ones.

Learn to use variety of materials - Narrative/expository

Interpret and analyze material

Note temporal sequences and cause and effect

Note definitions and examples and comparison and contrast

Look for reationships

Build background for further work and life-long enjoyment

Solving problems

Make predictions

Organize tasks

Set purposes

Paraphrase, summarizing, generalizing, and sharing

Separating facts from opinions

Answering own questions

Identifying relevant and irrelevant


Written by Dr. Loretta Kuse and Dr. Hildegard Kuse