Prompts to encourage your reader to become strategic

Self-Monitoring/Correcting their errors:

• Does that sound right?

If they make an error that isn’t grammatically correct or punctuation was omitted.

• Does that look right?

If they make an error that doesn’t match the printed text.

• Does that make sense? Let’s reread and see what could make sense there.

If they make an error without correcting it, where meaning could be lost.

When stuck on a word:

• If you know ___, then you know ____.
• Break the word into syllables or parts

Prompts to encourage deeper comprehension:

• How does the story make you feel?

(analyzing the mood of the story)

• What was the author really trying to tell us/teach us?

(exploring theme or big idea)

• What did the character learn throughout the story?
• How was ___ and ____ the same/different?
• What did the author do to make it interesting?