What Do Good Readers Do? 2nd pd

What does fluency mean?

• To predict

• Author's purpose

• Speed, rate, and accuracy in which a reader reads

What does metacognition mean?

• To understand what you are reading (text + thinking = real reading)

• Background knowledge + context clues

• Summarizing the meaning of the text

What does synthesize mean?

• Predicting the meaning of multiple paragraphs

• Combine information to create new understandings

• Making connections with the text

How do you make a good inference?

• Text + Thinking = Real Reading

• The speed, rate, and accuracy in which a reader reads

• Use schema (background knowledge) + text evidence (context clues)

What questions can you ask yourself to make predictions while reading?

• Ask, "What do I think this text is about?"

• Ask, "How many pages am I reading?"

• Ask,"How fast am I reading?"

What does visualize mean?

• To repeat what you just read

• Draw multiple pictures of the characters in the story

• Create a mental picture of what is happening in the text

What can you do to monitor your understanding while reading?

• Re-read the text

• Ask, "Does this make sense?"

• Summarize what you are reading- each paragraph (annotating) & whole text summary

• All of the above

How can you connect to the text you are reading?

• Make a text to text connection

• Make a text to self connection

• Make a text to world connection

• All of the above

Questing while reading sounds like...

• Who? What? When?

• Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?

• What? Where? Why? How?

What is digital citizenship?

• Using various social media networks

• Being impatient & inappropriate, speaking out loud & carelessly using technology

• Being kind, patient, responsible, appropriate & safe