Top-Down Reading strategies Top-Down Reading strategies are when readers use their judgment and higher-order thingking skills and holistically make sense of a text .
Top- down reading strategies PRE WHILE POST - Activating schema - Monitoring - Paraphasing - Making predictions : - Rereading - Summarizing What do I know ? - Paraphrasing -Confirming predictions What do I want to know ? - Figuring Words out from the context - Thinking about what was learned What’s my purpose for Reading? - Ignoring Words that are difficult - Rereading as necessary - Previewing the text to get the gist - Making new predictions based on new textual information -Processing the new information Making predictions - Noticing key Words / kew statements / topic sentences . - Thinking about what they know .