Teachers as Readers: Reading Strategies

Reading strategies that I use to successfully complete an academic reading assignment and for writing papers include reading selectively, constructing, revising, and questioning the meanings made while reading, integrating prior knowledge with material in the text, reading different kinds of texts differently, attending closely to the setting and characters, frequently constructing and revising summaries of what has been read, and thinking about text before, during and after reading.  I could go on to include additional strategies.  In a way, it's hard to pick out the specific strategies that I use since I do them automatically the vast majority of the time.  In much of the professional texts that I choose to read or are assigned to read, I feel that I work a lot on constructing, revising, and questioning the meanings made while reading.  Often in magazines that I read, I have specific goals in mind (am I interested in learning how to make this or learning how to do this?) while deciding which articles I will read and which I won't bother with.  Some things I may read carefully in the magazines that I read, and other parts I can quickly read or skip over.  In the book I'm reading (The Vow: The True Events that Inspired the Movie by Dana Wilkerson, Kim Carpenter, Krickitt Carpenter), I have noticed that I have been paying close attention to the setting, characters, and that plot of the story and comparing it to the movie based on the book (I wish I had read the book first!).  There have been many similarities, but also huge differences between the book and the movie (both excellent but so very different at the same time).