THIS DOESNT MAKE SENSE

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THIS DOESNT MAKE SENSE

• READING STRATEGIES

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WHY DO I NEED READING STRATEGIES?

• Reading involves 2 processes
• Decoding
• Thinking about what you are reading

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WHY DO I HAVE TO THINK WHEN IM READING?

• Enhance understanding
• Acquire and use knowledge
• Monitor understanding
• Develop insight

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WHAT ARE THE STRATEGIES?

• Making Connections
• Questioning
• Making Inferences
• Visualizing
• Determining Importance in Text
• Synthesizing Information
• Improving Vocabulary

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HOW DO I KNOW I NEED HELP?

• The voice inside your head isnt interacting with
  the text
• The camera inside your head shuts off
• Your mind begins to wander
• You cant remember what you read
• You cant answer questions about what you read
• You cant remember encountering a character

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MAKING CONNECTIONS

• Between text and your past experience or
  background knowledge
• Between text youre reading and another text
• Between text and events and experiences in your
  world

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QUESTIONING

• Proficient readers continually ask questions
• Before reading
• During reading
• After reading
• Gives readers a purpose for reading
• Monitors readers understanding of material
• Reader may choose to go to other sources

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MAKING INFERENCES

• Use background knowledge and experience
• Pay attention to detail
• Setting
• Characters dialogue
• Events in novel
• Discuss novel with other readers

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VISUALIZING

• Create pictures in your mind
• Use authors words
• Use background experience
• Make comparisons
• Note figurative language
• Note words that appeal to senses

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DETERMINING IMPORTANCE IN TEXT

• Activate prior knowledge
• Note characteristics of text
• Skim text
• Read bold print, illustrations, graphs and tables
• Read first and last line of each paragraph
  carefully
• Take notes or highlight text

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SYNTHESIZING INFORMATION

• Retell information
• Add personal response
• Make comparisons and contrasts
• Attempt to answer I wonder questions
• Make application of reading to real world

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IMPROVING VOCABULARY

• Context Clues
• Prefixes
• Root Words
• Suffixes

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ACCELERATED READING

• Read Faster and Better
• Pay attention
• Stop talking to yourself when you read
• Read in thought groups
• Dont keep re-reading the same phrases
• Vary your reading rate

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WHAT DO I DO NOW?
PRACTICE!!!
You are responsible for constructing your own
meaning. You now have the necessary tools to
succeed.
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RESOURCES

• I Read It, But I Dont Get It by Cris Tovani
• Reading Strategies That Work by Laura Robb
• Strategies That Work by Stephanie Harvey
• Vocabulary Drills by Edward B. Fry
• www.clipart.com
• puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com
• www.wavcentral.com

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