The Super Six

Research-based Comprehension Strategies

August/September               MAKING CONNECTIONS

                                                (Connecting text to self, text to text, text

 to world)

October/November              PREDICT AND PROVE

(Guessing  and checking, based on clues from reading)

November/December          QUESTIONING   

                                                (Investigating text, author;

self-monitoring)

January/February                  SUMMARIZE

(Synthesizing, retelling, recapping, putting it all together)

February/March          INFERENCE

                                                (Reading between the lines to draw

 conclusions; reasonable guesses)

April/May                              VISUALIZATION

                                                (Mental imagining of people, places, or

events in a text or story)