How to be a good reader?

How to be a good reader?

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Do you ever read something but not remember what it says?

• yes

• no

Poll

Do you ever have thoughts that distract you from reading?

• yes

• no

Open Ended

What do you do if you catch yourself not remembering what you read?

Open Ended

What thoughts go through your mind when you read?

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What makes a good reader?

Effective readers...

• Read for UNDERSTANDING, not for speed

• Know when and how to find the meaning of a word - using more than a dictionary

• Sometimes read something more than once

• Read a variety of literature

• And ACTIVATE their internal voice

Before reading

Good readers scan the text and use its appearance to help them know what the text is about.

Use prior knowledge, activate what you already know about the subject

Set a purpose for reading

During reading

Ask questions and monitor understanding.

Make connections between text and their life, the world, or another text.

Visualize, make mental pictures when reading by paying attention to sensory details in the text.

Making inferences and predictions, think, guess.

Word attack, figure out the meaning of new words by the context, suffix, prefix, root, etc.

Synthesize, use new information to change or confirm what they think the text is about.

During and after reading

Evaluate, form opinions about the text they read and use details from it to back it up.

Summarize, put into their own words the gist of what they've been reading.

Apply to life, look for messages to see how those ideas can influence their everyday life.

Open Ended

How do you feel about yourself as a reader? What kind of things do you enjoy reading? What do you find challenging or difficult about reading?

Open Ended

Think about strategies that can make you a better reader, describe at least 3 of them: