Exploring High Level Reading Strategies

What is chunking text?

• breaking down complex sentences into shorter phrases or even a couple sentences at a time

• students recognize confusion and go through a process to figure out what they are reading

• student connect to what they already know to help them process the text more

• creating a mental picture of what you are reading

What is clarifying?

• breaking down complex sentences into shorter phrases or even a couple sentences at a time

• students recognize confusion and go through a process to figure out what they are reading

• student connect to what they already know to help them process the text more

• creating a mental picture of what you are reading

What is making connections?

• breaking down complex sentences into shorter phrases or even a couple sentences at a time

• students recognize confusion and go through a process to figure out what they are reading

• student connect to what they already know to help them process the text more

• creating a mental picture of what you are reading

What is visualizing and visual text?

• breaking down complex sentences into shorter phrases or even a couple sentences at a time

• students recognize confusion and go through a process to figure out what they are reading

• student connect to what they already know to help them process the text more

• creating a mental picture of what you are reading

What is questioning?

• students ask content- based questions

• students create questions, answer them and facilitate a discussion using the questions they generated

• students generate questions that they directly find in the text, that they pull from, text has some of the answer or that the answer depends on the readers' experiences

• using evidence for answering question.

What is ReQuest?

• students ask content- based questions

• students create questions, answer them and facilitate a discussion using the questions they generated

• students generate questions that they directly find in the text, that they pull from, text has some of the answer or that the answer depends on the readers' experiences

• using evidence for answering question.

What is QAR?

• students ask content- based questions

• students create questions, answer them and facilitate a discussion using the questions they generated

• students generate questions that they directly find in the text, that they pull from, text has some of the answer or that the answer depends on the readers' experiences

• using evidence for answering question.

What is Using Evidence?

• students ask content- based questions

• students create questions, answer them and facilitate a discussion using the questions they generated

• students generate questions that they directly find in the text, that they pull from, text has some of the answer or that the answer depends on the readers' experiences

• using evidence for answering question.

What is Getting the Gist?

• getting a sense for what they students understand so far in a text; a quick check for understanding

• after reading students write about what they read in their own words

• guessing what comes next in a text based on what I read

• text features like particular words or punctuation marks that help us predict where the text will go

What is Summarizing?

• getting a sense for what they students understand so far in a text; a quick check for understanding

• after reading students write about what they read in their own words

• guessing what comes next in a text based on what I read

• text features like particular words or punctuation marks that help us predict where the text will go