Literacy 

Comprehension strategies

Thinking Beyond the Text

When readers think beyond the text, they bring their prior knowledge and understanding of how the world works to the text in order to:

• make informed predictions
• make meaningful connections between the content of the text and their own life, other texts, and the world around them
• synthesize information and shift their thinking to incorporate new understandings
• infer what the author means but does not explicitly state.

Readers link their literal understandings of the text to their own experiences in order to construct an understanding of the deeper messages of the text.

 Jemma McVeigh and Chris Catterall