What are pre-reading strategies?

Pre-reading strategies are techniques used to prepare students for reading a text, focusing on activating prior knowledge and making predictions that can enhance comprehension. When students flip through pages and make predictions about the content, they engage with the text before fully diving into it. This approach helps build anticipation and encourages them to think critically about what they might encounter, which can lead to deeper understanding and retention of the material.

The other choices focus on different aspects of reading and comprehension. Techniques to understand the text after reading aim to assess or reinforce comprehension rather than prepare for it. Strategies for summarizing paragraphs occur after reading has begun and allow students to consolidate what they have learned, but they do not help set the stage for reading. Methods to analyze character development pertain to specific literary analysis and are typically used during or after the reading process—thus, they do not fall under pre-reading strategies.