Free printable · Grades 4 to 12

Free reading strategy bookmarks

Four bookmarks a student keeps in their book: what to do before reading, while reading, after reading, and when they get stuck. Each one is a short list of prompts that works with any text. A second page has a simpler set for newer readers.

Reading Strategy Bookmarks: four colored bookmarks to cut apart, Before I Read, While I Read, After I Read and When I Get Stuck, each with short prompts.

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What it is

Strategy bookmarks for independent reading and intervention, useful from upper elementary through high school.

How to use it

Model one bookmark at a time with a short text.
Have students keep the bookmark in the book they're reading.
Stop at a good moment and ask which prompt they used.

Three quick tips

Print on cardstock so they last.
Start with the When I Get Stuck bookmark for struggling readers.
Ask students to add one prompt of their own on the back.

Questions

What grades are they for?: They work from about grade 4 through high school.
Do they work with any book?: Yes. The prompts work with fiction and nonfiction.
Is there a close reading version?: Yes. Ask for a close reading organizer.

A starting point for your own professional judgment. Use initials only on any page about a student.