Becoming A Reader compiled by Anne Snyder, Walter White

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Becoming A Reader compiled by Anne
Snyder, Walter White

• Learning to Read Means Thinking About
• Your Reading and How to Improve

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Real reading means

• figuring out what a word says (thats decoding)
  and
• knowing what the word means (thats
  comprehension).

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• To understand and enjoy reading more, you need to
  think when you are reading. Thinking about
  reading helps you remember what to do when you
  dont know a word.

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What Good Readers Do to Figure Out a Word

• Get your mouth ready!
• Blend and hold the sounds.
• Go back, point, and slide.

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• Look at the picture and think about the story.
• Look for a vowel spelling pattern.
• Look for a little word in a big word.

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• Back up and reread the sentence.
• Get a running start and reread several sentences.

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Ask yourself ---

• Does it sound like language?
• Do the letters match what I am saying?
• Where do the syllables split?

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• To understand and enjoy reading more, you need to
  think when you are reading. Thinking about
  reading builds meaning!

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Good Readers Think to Use

• Context Clues -- The meanings of the words in the
  sentence or in the surrounding sentences can give
  you clues.

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Good Readers Think to Use

• Word Structure Knowing the meaning of a part of
  a word can give you clues to a words meaning.

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Good Readers Think to Use

• Apposition Other words in the sentence may give
  you the definition of your word. The definition
  is often set off by commas.

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Thinking about reading means you . . .

• VISUALIZE by making mental pictures in your head
  of
• what you are
• reading.

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Thinking about reading means you . . .

• PREDICT what will happen next in the story based
  on your prior experience and what youve read so
  far. Watch to see if your prediction comes true.

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Thinking about reading means you . . .

• SUMMARIZE as you read by stopping once or twice
  along the way to retell the story to yourself to
  help you remember and understand important events.

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Thinking about reading means you . . .

• MAKE CONNECTIONS from the story to your life, to
  another story, or to something happening in
• the world.

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Thinking about reading means you . . .

• ACTIVATE YOUR PRIOR KNOWLEDGE, use your schema,
  to infer meaning from the events of the story.

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Thinking about reading means you . . .

• ASK YOURSELF QUESTIONS as you read and see if you
  can answer them as you continue reading. Asking
  questions deepens your understanding.

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Thinking about reading means you . . .

• MONITOR AND CLARIFY by rereading and discussing
  confusing parts of the story until it all makes
  more sense and becomes clear to you.

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Thinking about reading means you . . .

• ADJUST YOUR SPEED by slowing down when the words
  are difficult or confusing so you can understand
  better.

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Thinking about reading means you . . .

• SET GOALS FOR YOURSELF by setting a purpose for
  reading before you begin. At times you may read
  for fluency or to make connections or just for
  fun.

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GOOD READERS . . .

• Use all these strategies to become better, more
  fluent readers.

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Good Readers Work Hard . . .

• To make reading as much fun as it can be!