Reading and Writing Recursively

Reading and Writing - Recursively

Reading is a Staged and Recursive Process

• Before

• During

• After

Multiple Select

What does recursive mean? Check all that apply.

• Procedures for understanding are repeated

• Thinking refers back to increase meaning

• Draws on the work (reading or writing) just done

• From Latin - Recurring Repeatedly

Before

• Set goals and purposes

• Predict

• Question

• Activate prior knowledge/context

During

• Monitor Comprehension

• Make sense

• Make connections

• (All the habits of effective readers)

After

• Summarize

• Review

• Talk about it

• Apply to knew situations or texts

• Reread

• Read more

• Evaluate

Habits of Effective Readers

Visualize (make mental pictures or images)

Connect (to one’s experience, the world, other texts)

Question (to actively wonder, interrogate the text)

Infer (to predict, interpret, hypothesize, conclude)

Evaluate (make judgements, determine worth)

Analyze (examine craft, structure, point of view, purpose, vocab, tone)

Recall (retell, summarize, remember)

Self-monitor (notice and respond to confusion, boredom or strengths as reader and adjust)

Writing is also a staged and recursive process

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