Check for understanding.

Back up and reread.

Monitor and fix up.

Retell the story

Use what I already know to connect with the story.

Make a picture in my mind.

Ask myself questions

Predict what will happen next and check the story.

Infer and support with evidence.

Use text features. Titles,, headings captions graphics

Summarize the text including sequence of main events.

Use main idea and details to determine what is important.

purpose.

Recognize literacy elements: genre,

plot character setti ng problem/resoluti on theme.

Recognize and explain cause and effect relationships.

Compare and contrast within and between text

Cross Checking: Does it sound

right,? Look right? Make sense?

Use the pictures... Do the words and pictures match?

Use beginning and ending sounds.

Blend sounds: stretch and reread.

Flip the sound.

Chunk letters and sounds together.

Skip the word and come back to it.

Trade a word/guess a word that makes sense.

Voracious Reading: Read! Read! Read!

Read books that are a

Reread text.

Practice common sight words and Word Wall Words.

Adjust and apply different reading rates to match text.

Pay attention to punctuation to enhance the way your reading

sounds.

Voracious Reading: Read! Read! Read!

Tune in to interesting Words. Use new vocabulary in speaking and

writing.

Use pictures and illustrations.

Use word parts to determine the meaning of words.

Use what I already know and context to predict and confirm meaning.

Ask someone to define the word for you.

Use dictionaries ,;; thesauruses and glossaries as tools.