There are four pairs of strategies in the ESTRELLAS eLiteracy Kit. Each pair focuses on different ways you can use the system to support your reading.

• Using Text-to-Speech to Support Your Reading

Strategies in this group show you how you can use the tool TEXT-TO-SPEECH to help increase your understanding of the text, as well as any unfamiliar words you might come across.

1. Reading for Meaning

2. Reading for Vocabulary

• Using Glossaries to Learn Vocabulary

Strategies in this group help you learn how you can create and learn from GLOSSARIES on vocabulary words in the text using an electronic outliner.

3. Creating a Glossary

4. Illustrating a Glossary

• Using Outlines to Take Notes from Narrative Texts

The strategies in this group use an electronic outliner to take notes and study from NARRATIVE TEXT you are reading.

5. Notetaking for Narrative Text

6. Writing Summaries

• Using Outlines to Take Notes from Informational Texts

The strategies in this group use an electronic outliner to take notes and study from INFORMATIONAL TEXT you are reading.

7. Notetaking for Informational Text

8. Self-Questioning