Reading Strategies

What is the "purpose" of reading a text?

• the reason for doing it

• the details of the story

• the context clues

How do we "monitor" our reading?

• we picture what it is like

• we relate it to our lives

• we keep track of it, check on it, and focus

How do we "make connections" to our reading?

• we visualize ourselves there

• we relate it to our lives and experiences

• we look for context clues

What is "visualizing" our reading?

• Using our imagination to picture what something would be like

• use context clues to figure something out

• connect the dots to understand something

What questions should we ask ourselves while reading?

• what time is it?

• when's lunch time?

• can I go to the bathroom?

• who, what, when, where, why, how?

What is "summarization"?

• When you pick out the main points or important details of something.

• when you pretend to be the main character

• when you write a poem about the story

What do we do to "make inferences"?

• we visualize ourselves there

• we take the information we don't know, and to try figure out something that the story did not directly tell us

• we use context clues

What is "synthesizing"?

• using the descriptions of the story to imagine ourselves there and what it would be like

• using information we don't know to figure out something from the text

• connecting the dots and bringing ideas together to understand the text

What are "context clues"?

• The information surrounding the word we don't know, that helps us figure out its meaning.

• The details about the story that we don't know and will never figure out

• the way we can relate to the story to make it seem real

Which sentence uses "bark" in the same way?

The tree bark was brown and brittle.

• My dog barks very loudly.

• I went for a walk and heard a bark that startled me.

• I watched a show about people living in the wilderness; they had to eat bark to stay alive!