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Reading Strategies

 


 

 



 

 


 Predict

(EALR 2.1.5)

 

Strategy:

Use the evidence in your text and your own experience and knowledge to figure out what will happen next, or what information will be presented next.  Read on to check your predictions.

 

Include at least three text-related predictions based on what you read today.  Your prediction should help you guess what will happen next -- in the story; or what facts will be presented next--in the nonfiction article. 

 

Check back to see if your predictions were accurate.  If yes, continue reading.  If not, ask yourself what clues you may have missed; re-read to find the clues that suggest what did happen next in the story or what facts would be presented next in nonfiction.

 

Graphic Organizer Titles

Reading Toolkit -- Predicting

Clues from Text   Prediction

 

Notebook --- Three Columns (Clues from text; Prediction: Verification)


 

Visualize

 (EALR 2.1.6)

 

Strategy:

 

Picture in your mind and with sketches what the words reveal; picture the people, places, and events described to help you understand the text.

 

What words helped you visualize?  Look for words that present the five senses: sights, sounds, smells, touch, taste?

 

Fiction:

 

Setting: What words indicate details of weather, landscape, surroundings, place?  What words indicate time?  What words indicate social setting -- how people behave towards each other?

 

Character: What words indicate each character's age, height, weight, looks, ideas?

       What does the character say?  What does the character do?  What do other characters think about the character? How has the main character changed?

 

Plot: What mind movie of action do you see?  Draw and label maps or trees to show how a person, place, or event relates to the others.  Use notes to explain how your drawing relates to the text.

 

Questions:

What does your picture mean?

Why did you choose this part of the story?

How does your picture relate to the story?

Explain why you drew the picture/map/tree the way you did.

How did drawing the picture/map/tree help you notice something new about the story?

What did you think when you read this part of the story?

What idea were you trying to explain in your picture/map/tree?

 

 

 

Nonfiction:

What images do the words in the text create for the topic?

What graphic would best help you and others understand the topic: sketch, map, web, tree?

 

Graphic Possibilities

Sketch the topic (stick figures or diagrams; include labels)  (Structure of Volcano;

Geographic or Event Map (location of topic details, such as battles or life events or volcano patterns

Sketch of landscape or geographic area with labels

Blocks/shapes of events

Spatial order--shows events or people in logical pattern of main idea

 

Tree (shows trunk of main idea to branches of part ideas and leaves of related details)

Tree (shows organizational structure of information:

Causes ------> Effects

Spatial order (left-right, top to bottom, front to back, in-out patterns)

Proposition -----> Support/Evidence

Analysis/Classification

Order of importance

Order of impression

Order of description

Compare/Contrast

 

How will your graphic include: 

 

Main ideas

What graphic could you draw and label to emphasize the main idea?

 

Details

What details in the text could you draw that would help you and others to understand the main idea?

 

Conclusions

What information in your graphic will help you and others to understand the "big idea" of the topic?

 

 Graphic Organizer Titles

 

 Reading Toolkit -- Visualizing (Web of Title, Setting, Characters)

 

Literature Circle Notes: Illustrator

 

 


 

Connect

(EALR 2.4.5)

 

Strategy:

What is familiar in the story? How does what you know link to the story or article? Your connection should help you understand the story or article.

 

Make at least three connections between the text ideas or events and your own experience, the world, or other media.

 

Connect with your own ideas and knowledge.  Connect with your own experiences. Connect with what you have seen, heard, or read elsewhere.  Find similarities with the text and what you have experienced, heard, or read about.

 

Ways of connection:

 

Personal Experience

Current events (things that are happening now in the world-- what current trends or events related to the text)

Prior knowledge (what you already know)

Other subjects (science, social studies, history, geography, biology, health, etc.)

Other texts (books, movies, tv, posters, newspapers, magazines, etc.

Other parts of the same text (how does this part connect to previous parts of the text)

Other people or places to compare to the text

Other characters or authors to compare to the text

 

Reflecton on your connection:

What questions do your connections make you wonder about?

What topics do your connections and questions add to understanding the text?

 

 Graphic Organizer Titles

Reading Toolkit -- Connecting

Literature Circle Notes: Connector

Making the Connection

 


 

Question

(EALR 2.4.5)

 

Strategy

Ask questions about your reading.  Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?

 

Fiction:

Search for reasons for the events.  Why did things happen? 

Ask questions about literary elements: characters, plot events, setting, theme, author's purpose.

Ask questions about author's use of language (word choice, figurative language, bias/perspective).

Ask questions about the characters' actions and words.

Actions:

Think about the character's actions.

What is the character thinking?

What is the character feeling?

Why did the character do it?

How does what the character do relate to the plot?

 

Words:

Read the dialogue carefully, the conversation of the characters.

What is the character thinking?

What is the character feeling?

Why did the character say it?

Why did the character say it to the other character?

How does what the character say relate to the plot?

 

Ask questions about the plot events.

Ask questions about the author's purpose.

Is the author informing, entertaining, explaining, expressing an opinion, or persuading?

Who is the author writing to (kids, adults, certain backgrounds, etc.)?

Ask questions about the text structure-- how and why did the author organize the text?

Ask questions about confusing parts.

Ask questions you wonder about.

 

Nonfiction:

Search for reasons for the events.  Why did things happen?

Search for main idea and details.

Search for explanations, cause/effect, chronology of events, problem/solutions.

Ask questions about author's use of language (word choice, figurative language, bias/perspective).

 

Ask questions about the author's purpose.

Is the author informing, entertaining, explaining, expressing an opinion, or persuading?

Who is the author writing to (kids, adults, certain backgrounds, etc.)?

Ask questions about the text structure-- how and why did the author organize the text?

Ask questions about confusing parts.

Ask questions you wonder about.

 

Graphic Organizer Titles and Information Sheets

Reading Toolkit -- Questioning

Story Structure (Reading Reminders by Burke)

Literature Circle Notes: Illuminator

Main Idea Organizer Reading, Writing, Watching, Listening (50 Essential Lessons by Burke)

Literary Analysis Dialogue Organizer (McDougal--Littell)

Author's Purpose and Audience (McDougal--Littell)

Figurative Language Review List

Literary Analysis--Patterns of Organization (McDougal--Littell)


 

Clarify

Strategy:

Are there words you need to break down, chunk, or look up in the dictionary?

Use a dictionary, glossary, other resources to help you.

 

Are there ideas you have questions about?

 

Reread what you don't understand.

 

Strategies for Getting Unstuck:

Skip the hard part.

Skip the hard part and come back later.

Reread.

Read aloud.

Say the ideas in your own words.

Look at other information on the pages (pictures, highlighted words, captions, sidebars).

Explain it to someone else.

Ask someone else (friends, parents, teacher) for help.

Draw it--sketch, picture, timeline, web, tree.

Ask someone else to read it aloud to hear it.

 

Summarize the text to make sure you understand what you read. (EALR 2.1.7)

Retell what happens.

Identify the three most important events/details.

Explain why these are important.

Explain how these are connected.

 

Use your own words in an objective voice.

 

Summaries of fiction include the theme and/or author's message supported by text-based evidence and must be accurate to the original text.

 

Summaries of nonfiction include an introductory statement, main ideas, and supporting text-based detials with connections among the key ideas of the whole text; it must be accurate to the orginal text and must avoid interpratation or judgment.

 

Create your own graphic organizer to enhance your understanding of the text.

 

Find the main ideas and details.

 

Make inferences--draw conclusions from the information you have read. 

 

Inferences (EALR 2.1.5) about characters, events, and situations in the text:

An inference is a reasonable guess based on facts and experience.  What I learned + What I know = inference

What does the text say?                                         

What do you already know?

What do you infer (guess based on facts and experience) about the characters, events, or situations in the text?

 

 

Draw conclusions:

Draw conclusions means to pull out the main theme.

List the three most important ideas.

What do all the ideas mean--put them together; this is your conclusion based on the three most important ideas.

Explain why the conclusion is important.

 

 

 

 

Graphic Organizer Titles and Information Sheets

Clarify Sheet (sre)

Literature Circle Notes: Word Watcher

Stuck?  (Reading Reminders by Burke)

Reading Reflection Sheet (Reading Reminders by Burke)

Making Inferences Organizer (50 Essential Lessons by Burke)

Drawing Conclusions Organizer (50 Essential Lessons by Burke)

Literature Circle Notes: Summarizer (50 Essential Lessons by Burke)

Reading Comprehension Summarizing (McDougal--Littell)

 


 

Evaluate

Strategy:

Make opinions about what you read -- while you read and after you've finished. 

Develop your own ideas about the people, places, events, and author's language based on the text and your connections.

 

Answer these questions with evidence from the text:

Is the text believable?

Is the text reliable?

Is the text original?

Does the text have emotional power?

Does the author's language (form, sound, imagery, figurative language) help understanding?

Does the author's language and purpose (inform, entertain, persuade, etc.) help understanding?

Does the text organization help understanding?

 

How do these elements work together to provide meaning?  a theme? a big idea? a question for further research?

 

 

Graphic Organizer Titles and Information Sheets

Reading Toolkit -- Evaluating

Reading Comprehension Sheet--Making Judgements (McDougal--Littell)

Reading "Evaluate" Sheet (sre)

 

 


Other Information

 

Note-taking

Strategy

What is your purpose for reading?

Take notes based on your purpose. 

Look for information/literary analysis based on your purpose.

 

Graphic Organizers:

Study Skills-- Note Taking

Text Notations for Marking Text

Cornell Note Sheets (several types available)

 

Graphic Organizers & Checklists

Four Stragegy Sheet (Summarizing, Questioning, Predicting, Connecting)

Active Reading: Questions to Consider and Use

Reading Process Self-Evaluation

Envisioning Text: Creating the Mind Movie


 

 

Reading Strategy Assignment

 

1.  Choose a reading strategy.

2.  Read a text.

3.  Write a journal entry:

Name

8R

Date

Strategy

 

Reading Strategy:

 

Strategy Response:

 

 

Strategy Reflection (How did the strategy help you understand the text?)

 

 

 

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