POSSE
Updated 2026-08-11
INTRODUCTION
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CORE DEFINITION
POSSE is a reading comprehension strategy with five steps. Predict asks the reader to anticipate what the text will contain. Organize activates and structures what the reader already knows about the topic. Search directs attention to the main points and arguments as reading proceeds. Summarize requires restating the content in the reader's own words. Evaluate asks whether the material was actually understood and sends the reader back where it was not. The strategy's purpose is to make comprehension monitoring explicit, so a failure to understand is detected during reading rather than after an assessment.
SCAFFOLDING EFFECT
Reduce cognitive load
- Use prediction: write what you expect the text to argue before reading it. - Use own-words summary: restate each section in your own words rather than copying sentences. - Use comprehension check: identify the parts you could not restate and reread those sections.
Anchor fast decisions
Reading proceeds fluently whether or not comprehension is occurring, so a failure to understand produces no signal unless the reader generates one. Predicting gives the text something to confirm or contradict, which makes a mismatch noticeable. Summarizing in one's own words requires reconstructing the meaning, which is where gaps become apparent, and evaluating sends the reader back to the sections that could not be restated. The strategy converts comprehension into a checkable output at each stage.
MINIMUM ACTION
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- eric.ed.govhttps://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ418337verified
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