What Good Readers Do

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What Good Readers Do

• Do they do more than
• suck up to the teacher?

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2. Have Purpose for Reading

• Read to get meaning
• Actively participate in reading

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Good readers . . .
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3. Use Variety of Strategies

• Predicting
• Summarizing
• Questioning
• Visualizing

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4. Make Inferences

• Use personal examples of content presented in
  text
• Take time to figure out meaning of a word

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5. Use Prior Knowledge

• Relate ideas in text to ideas in the world and
  own beliefs
• Relate what they are reading to own life

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6. Monitor Understanding

• Recognize when what they read is difficult
• Recognize when they stop paying attention
• Identify when vocabulary is a problem
• Identify parts of a text that confuse them
  (self-monitoring)

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7. Use Fix-Up Strategies

• Reread
• Change reading rate (speed)
• Use dictionary

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8. Question Authors Purpose

• Determine why author is writing passage
• Think about point of view

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9. Pay Attention to Text Features

• Use these features to help them
• Headings
• Bold-faced and italicized text
• Charts, graphs, pictures

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10. Evaluate Enjoyment

• Know why book does or does not appeal to them
• Know whether or not they would recommend book

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11. Know Meaning of Words

• Use context clues when dont know meaning
• Use root words or affixes to gather meaning

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Are you a good reader?