reading+strategies

=Reading Strategies:=


 * Before activities: **

Discussion of what students already know about the topic

_ Mapping

_ Related materials to encourage connection

_Videos, Websites, PowerPoints, field trips, reading materials – create schema

_Vocabulary building activities, review, clarify

_ Preview and predict, skim/scan

_ SQ3R – Text features, headings, subheadings, charts, graphs, photos, tables, bold-

faced print, glossaries, etc.

_KWL

_ Anticipation guides

_ Predict


 * During activities:**

_Set a purpose for reading

_Visualize

_Reflect and monitor

_ Self-question

_Inferential activities

_ Summarizing activities

_ Reading logs and journals

_Graphic organizers

_ Study guides

_Confirm or reject predictions

_ Underline, highlight

_ Respond to text, post-its or write in margins

_ Re-read

_ Note-taking

_ Metacognitive strategies

_ 5 W & H

_ Predict

_ Connections – to self, to other text, to world
 * Focusing on //**text-to-self**// connections:
 * What does this story remind you of?
 * Can you relate to the characters in the story?
 * Does anything in this story remind you of anything in your own life?
 * Focusing on //**text-to-text**// connections:
 * What does this remind you of in another book you have read?
 * How is this text similar to other things you have read?
 * How is this text different from other things you have read?
 * Focusing on //**text-to-world**// connections:
 * What does this remind you of in the real world?
 * How are events in this story similar to things that happen in the real world?
 * How are events in this story different from things that happen in the real world?

_Talk to the text – write down your questions, make comments, etc. (on post-its)

_Notice text structure, type of text, elements of literature, style, tone, etc.


 * After activities:**

_Review, summarize, paraphrase, interpret

_Discussions of main ideas

_Answer questions – literal and inferential

­­­­_Small group discussions

_Projects – visual or digital presentations

Media, book reviews

_Make comparisons

_Connecting – application, synthesis,

Drawing conclusions

_Analyzing, forming an opinion

More reading strategies: 1. Read the title, the sub-titles, the other text features available. Then, ask yourself, “What are the knowledge demands of this text? What do I need to know to be able to understand this?” (Language, schema, prior knowledge are frequently important in reading.) 2. Think aloud – this is literally a metacognitive technique. You speak out loud, voicing your questions, your comments, your thoughts and opinions, as you read. A variation of this is T2T and Making Connections. People who read the newspaper frequently do this when there is someone else in the room. (Old school) They share things they find interesting or outrageous. 3. Request/Question – Think about what you are reading as you read it. Write down your questions. You will then select some questions to ask others in your group. 4. Chunking – This is when you break the text into smaller parts to improve your understanding. You might chunk a section, a paragraph, read it, think about it, try to summarize it, and then move on to the next chunk of information. When you use this method, you read the text in steps. (I would use it with a math textbook, or any text that gives me directions about how to do something.)