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Thinking About How You Read Thinking About How You Read – Reading Strategies– Reading Strategies

Metacognition:Metacognition:Thinking About How You Thinking About How You

ThinkThink

Before you can improve your Before you can improve your reading skills, you need to reading skills, you need to

understand what happens in understand what happens in good readers’ minds while good readers’ minds while

they read. they read. You may even do these things You may even do these things already. You just don’t know already. You just don’t know

it…yet.it…yet.

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Strategy: Strategy: A plan for success!A plan for success!

StrategiesStrategies help readers understand, help readers understand, connect to, and to understand the connect to, and to understand the

importance of what they are reading. importance of what they are reading.

Good readers also visualize, ask questions Good readers also visualize, ask questions about, and understand deeper meaning about, and understand deeper meaning ((read between the lines read between the lines – to understand – to understand meaning that is not obviously stated )meaning that is not obviously stated )

The Reading StrategiesThe Reading StrategiesThere are seven reading strategies.There are seven reading strategies.

Make ConnectionsMake Connections

Ask Questions & Determine Ask Questions & Determine ImportanceImportance

InferInfer

PredictPredict

VisualizeVisualize

SynthesizeSynthesize

EvaluateEvaluate

Make ConnectionsMake Connections

Text to Self (similar events in your Text to Self (similar events in your life)life)

Text to Text (books, movies, T.V., Text to Text (books, movies, T.V., etc.)etc.)

Text to Life (real world events)Text to Life (real world events)

Make ConnectionsMake Connections

Ask Yourself:Ask Yourself:What do I already know about What do I already know about this?this?

Has anything similar ever Has anything similar ever happened to me?happened to me?

How would I feel if this How would I feel if this happened to me?happened to me?

Can I relate to the characters?Can I relate to the characters?

Does this story remind me of Does this story remind me of something?something?

Ask QuestionsAsk QuestionsWhat don’t you get?What don’t you get?

What do you get?What do you get?

What words don’t you What words don’t you understand?understand?

What other questions do you What other questions do you have?have?

What do you wonder about as What do you wonder about as you read?you read?

Asking questions will help you Asking questions will help you not get bored! not get bored!

What is Important?What is Important?

Pick and choose which Pick and choose which details are the most details are the most important to remember.important to remember.

•Think about what a teacher Think about what a teacher might ask on a test.might ask on a test.

•Think about what the author Think about what the author hints might be important later hints might be important later on.on.

(Foreshadowing) (Foreshadowing)

Making inferences Making inferences (guesses)(guesses)

Good readers are like Good readers are like detectives.detectives.

They use clues to They use clues to understand the story.understand the story.

This is called INFERENCING!This is called INFERENCING!

PredictingPredicting

Good readers use the Good readers use the author’s hints to PREDICT author’s hints to PREDICT what will most likely what will most likely occur.occur.

Infer and PredictInfer and Predict

Ask Yourself:Ask Yourself:What isn’t written that I What isn’t written that I have figured out?have figured out?

What do I predict will What do I predict will happen?happen?

Why do I think so?Why do I think so?

VisualizeVisualize

Picture in your mind the images Picture in your mind the images the author creates with his/her the author creates with his/her words.words.

If you were there, what would If you were there, what would you SEE, HEAR, SMELL, TASTE, you SEE, HEAR, SMELL, TASTE, TOUCH, FEEL?TOUCH, FEEL?

SynthesizeSynthesize

Synthesize is a fancy way of Synthesize is a fancy way of saying that you must bring saying that you must bring everything together in the end. everything together in the end. In other words, what is the In other words, what is the meaning of what you are meaning of what you are reading?reading?

SynthesizeSynthesize

Ask Yourself:Ask Yourself:

o What does it all mean?What does it all mean?o What’s the big idea?What’s the big idea?o Are there questions still left Are there questions still left unanswered?unanswered?o What are the lessons I should What are the lessons I should learn?learn?o What do I think about this What do I think about this book?book?

EvaluatingEvaluating

Readers make Readers make judgments while they judgments while they read. Is read. Is

this good? If so, what is good about it? this good? If so, what is good about it?

The conclusions they make help them The conclusions they make help them decide whether or not what they are decide whether or not what they are reading is valuable and, if so, how reading is valuable and, if so, how they might use it.they might use it.

Use Fix Up StrategiesUse Fix Up Strategies

If you don’t understand, use FIX If you don’t understand, use FIX UP STRATEGIES.UP STRATEGIES.

Use Fix Up StrategiesUse Fix Up Strategies

Here are some examples of Fix Up Here are some examples of Fix Up Strategies:Strategies:

☻ Re-read Re-read

☻UnderlineUnderline

☻Use a DictionaryUse a Dictionary

☻Read AloudRead Aloud

☻Ask for HelpAsk for Help

Practice Strategies!Practice Strategies!

REMEMBER:REMEMBER:

You may be using some or all You may be using some or all of these strategies already. of these strategies already. You just may not know it. As You just may not know it. As you read more difficult texts, you read more difficult texts, you WILL NEED to use these you WILL NEED to use these strategies.strategies.

SO PRACTICE!SO PRACTICE!