After Reading Strategies

• "Somebody Wanted But So" - This is an after reading strategy to help students learn to summarize what they have read. It can also be used to change the point of view after reading a passage if the teacher is teaching that and wants to have the students base it on a reading text.
• Summary Statement - After students read a passage, provide statements out of sequence reflecting main points of the story. The student puts the statements in order.

Strategies to be used in more than one area:

• Cloze Procedure - The Cloze Procedure is used to assess students comprehension knowledge. It gives them an opportunity to read a passage missing words and they enter words they know that will give the sentence and passage meaning.  During "After Reading", this strategy could be used as an assessment for comprehension.
• Comparing and Contrasting - After reading the passage, the students will look at the compare and contrast information that they wrote prior to reading the text.
• Up and About - The students will review their predictions after reading the text.
• Concept Map - The students, working as a team or independently will complete the concept map of story elements.  This will tell the teacher if they are familiar with the different parts of the story.