Reading strategies are thinking strategies and are used across all curricular areas. How do we teach thinking to any student? By making it fun! Adopting an attitude of play, we begin with pre-reading strategies and move through the reading process (before, during, after) to teach students meta-cognition. If they can adopt the ability to think about their own thinking they can realize the need to adjust their reading speed, ask more questions, look up an unfamiliar word, or keep an on-going list of symbolism that they recognize is recurring in a text.
