Thinking

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Thinking

• Who Did Patricks Homework?

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Great readers understand the text better if they
think about their own experiences while they are
reading.
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Text to Self
Sample

• Make a connection to something you have
  personally experienced.

• Our personal connections

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Text to Text
Sample

• Make a connection to a text you have read in the
  past.

• Our connections to a text

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Text to World
Sample

• Make a connection to something you have seen or
  heard but not necessarily experienced.

• Our connections to the world..

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Questioning
Our Questions
Proficient readers spontaneously generate
questions before, during, and after reading.

• After questioning
• Reread
• Add any more more questions you may have
• Answer the questions
• Use text support
• Label the QAR.

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Determining Importance
Sample - Inspiration
Proficient readers make instantaneous decisions
about what is important in text at both the
sentence level and the text level.
Sample - Word
After determining important facts, choose 2-4
most important facts and color them red!
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Visualizing

• The Fireplace
• In summertime
• The fireplace
• Just sits and stares
• Without a face.
• But in the fall
• The sun gets weak,
• And the fireplace
• Begins to speak
• It snaps its fingers
• And wiggles its toes
• And roars with laughter
• When we tickle its nose.

• Create a picture in your mind using all of your
  senses to connect to the text.

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Inferring(Reaction Starters)
Sample - Rainforest Sample - Sharks

• When proficient readers infer, they
• Draw conclusions
• Make predictions (w/unresolved outcomes)
• Rereading is the best way to check for meaning!
• Create interpretations
• Combine background knowledge with text
• Make connections
• And make analytical judgments.

Read and React to the Rainforest Read and React
to Sharks
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Synthesis a new perspective or thought is born
out of reading

• During Reading
• Proficient readers are able to monitor and
  revise the overall meaning, important concepts,
  and themes using critical elements of text as
  they read.

After Reading Proficient readers are able to
express, through a variety of means, a synthesis
of what they have read.
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Proficient Readers
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What text did the story remind you of?
Title 1 Title 2 Title 3 Title 4 Title 5
Student Student Student Student Student
Student Student Student Student
Student Student Student
Student
Student
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What in the World?
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When readers synthesize, they

•    Remember to tell what is important
•    Tell it in a way that makes sense
•    Try not to tell too much