active reading

Active Reading

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What is your biggest challenge when it comes to reading?

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What is active reading?

Multiple Select

Which are considered to be active reading? (check all that apply)

• read frequently

• zoning out

• keeping track of thoughts

• question the text

Active Reading Comprehension Strategies

• Make Connections

• Visualize

• Ask Questions

• Infer
  

• Determine Importance

• Sythesize

III. Ask Questions - Good readers ask questions before, during, and after reading to better understand the author and the meaning of the text.

• What is the author trying to say?

• What is the message of this piece?

• Do I know something about this topic?

• What predictions do I have about this reading?

Ask Questions - read the passage and ask three questions.

Stanley was still digging. His hole was about three feet deep, but only in the center. It sloped upward to the edges. The sun had only just come up over the horizon, but he already could feel its hot rays against his face. As he reached down to pick up his canteen, he felt a sudden rush of dizziness and put his hands on his knees to steady himself. For a moment he was afraid he would throw up, but the moment passed. He drank the last drop of water from his canteen. He had blisters on every one of his fingers, and one in the center of each palm. Everyone else’s hole was a lot deeper than his. He couldn’t actually see their holes but could tell by the size of their dirt piles. 

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Ask Questions - give one question your team created.

Visualize-While reading, note places where you get a clear picture in your mind that helps you understand the text:

• I can picture…  

• I can see the…

•  I can visualize…

• The movie in my head shows…

II. Visualize

Good readers create pictures in their minds while they read. 

Use your senses to connect the characters, events, and ideas to clarify the picture in your head.

• I can taste/hear/smell the… 

• I can feel the…

Visualize (practice)

     Stanley wasn’t sure if the bus driver meant for him to be careful going down the steps, or if he was telling him to be careful at Camp Green Lake. ‘Thanks for the ride,” he said. His mouth was dry and his throat hurt. He stepped onto the hard, dry dirt. There was a band of sweat around his wrist where the handcuff had been. 

     The land was barren and desolate. He could see a few rundown buildings and some tents. Farther away there was only a cabin beneath two tall trees. Those two trees were the only plant life he could see. There weren’t even weeds. 

From Holes, by Louis Sachar 

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Visualize: What did you see?

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Visualize: What did you feel?