Becoming A Reader compiled by Anne Snyder, Walter White
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Becoming A Reader compiled by Anne Snyder, Walter White
Learning to Read Means Thinking About
Your Reading and How to Improve
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Real reading means:
•figuring out what a word says (that’s decoding) and
•knowing what the word means (that’s comprehension).
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To understand and enjoy
reading more, you need to think when you are reading. Thinking about reading helps you remember what to do when you don’t know a word.
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What Good Readers Do to Figure Out a Word
•Get your mouth ready!•Blend and hold the sounds.
•Go back, point, and slide.
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•Look at the picture and think about the story.
•Look for a vowel spelling pattern.
•Look for a little word in a big word.
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•Back up and reread the sentence.
•Get a running start and reread several sentences.
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Ask yourself ---
•Does it sound like language?
•Do the letters match what I am saying?
•Where do the syllables split?
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To understand and enjoy reading more, you need to think when you are reading. Thinking about reading builds meaning!
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Good Readers Think to Use:
•Context Clues -- The meanings of the words in the sentence or in the surrounding sentences can give you clues.
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Good Readers Think to Use:
•Word Structure – Knowing the meaning of a part of a word can give you clues to a word’s meaning.
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Good Readers Think to Use:
•Apposition – Other words in the sentence may give you the definition of your word. The definition is often set off by commas.
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Thinking about reading means you . . .
VISUALIZE by making mental pictures in your head of
what you are reading.
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Thinking about reading means you . . .
PREDICT what will happen next in the story based on your prior experience and what you’ve read so far. Watch to see if your prediction comes true.
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Thinking about reading means you . . .
SUMMARIZE as you read by stopping once or twice along the way to retell the story to yourself to help you remember and understand important events.
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Thinking about reading means you . . .
MAKE CONNECTIONS from the story to your life, to another story, or to something happening in
the world.
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Thinking about reading means you . . .
ACTIVATE YOUR PRIOR KNOWLEDGE, use your schema, to infer meaning from the events of the story.
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Thinking about reading means you . . .
ASK YOURSELF QUESTIONS as you read and see if you can answer them as you continue reading. Asking questions deepens your understanding.
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Thinking about reading means you . . .
MONITOR AND CLARIFY by rereading and discussing confusing parts of the story until it all makes more sense and becomes clear to you.
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Thinking about reading means you . . .
ADJUST YOUR SPEED by slowing down when the words are difficult or confusing so you can understand better.
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Thinking about reading means you . . .
SET GOALS FOR YOURSELF by setting a purpose for reading before you begin. At times you may read for fluency or to make connections or just for fun.
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GOOD READERS . . .
Use all these strategies to become better, more fluent readers.
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Good Readers Work Hard . . .To make reading as much fun as it can be!