Reading-Strategies-Thinking-About-How-You-Read.ppt
- 1. READING READING STRATEGIES STRATEGIES Thinking About How You Read Thinking About How You Read
- 2. Metacognition: Metacognition: Thinking About How You Think Thinking About How You Think Before you can truly improve your Before you can truly improve your reading skills, you need to reading skills, you need to understand what happens in good understand what happens in good readers’ minds while they read. readers’ minds while they read. You may even do these things You may even do these things already. You just don’t know it… already. You just don’t know it… yet. yet.
- 3. More About Metacognition More About Metacognition Good readers have developed good habits Good readers have developed good habits when they read. We call these habits when they read. We call these habits strategies. Strategies help readers strategies. Strategies help readers understand, connect to, and determine the understand, connect to, and determine the importance of what they are reading. They importance of what they are reading. They also visualize, ask questions about, and also visualize, ask questions about, and read between the lines of what they read. read between the lines of what they read.
- 4. The Reading Strategies The Reading Strategies There are seven reading strategies. There are seven reading strategies. Make Connections Make Connections Ask Questions Ask Questions Determine Importance Determine Importance Infer and Predict Infer and Predict Visualize Visualize Synthesize Synthesize Use Fix Up Strategies Use Fix Up Strategies
- 5. Make Connections Make Connections Text to Self (similar events in your life) Text to Self (similar events in your life) Text to Text (books, movies, T.V., etc.) Text to Text (books, movies, T.V., etc.) Text to Life (real world events) Text to Life (real world events)
- 6. Make Connections Make Connections Ask Yourself: Ask Yourself: What do I already know about this? What do I already know about this? Has anything similar ever happened Has anything similar ever happened to me? to me? How would I feel if this happened to How would I feel if this happened to me? me? Can I relate to the characters? Can I relate to the characters? Does this story remind me of Does this story remind me of something? something?
- 7. Make Connections Make Connections CONNECT yourself to the text! CONNECT yourself to the text! Go passed the Go passed the OBVIOUS! OBVIOUS!
- 8. Ask Questions Ask Questions What don’t you get? What don’t you get? What do you get? What do you get? What words don’t you What words don’t you understand? understand? What other questions do What other questions do you have? you have? What do you wonder What do you wonder about as you read? about as you read?
- 9. Why Ask Questions? Why Ask Questions? Asking questions helps keep you Asking questions helps keep you focused on the text. focused on the text. If your mind wanders, you will not If your mind wanders, you will not understand. Then you will be bored. understand. Then you will be bored. If you run into problems, things you If you run into problems, things you just don’t understand, then you can just don’t understand, then you can check yourself with a question. check yourself with a question.
- 10. Determine Importance Determine Importance Pick and choose which details Pick and choose which details are the most important to are the most important to remember. remember. •Think about what a teacher Think about what a teacher might ask on a test. might ask on a test. •Think about what the author Think about what the author hints might be important later on. hints might be important later on.
- 11. Why Determine Importance? Why Determine Importance? Anything you read contains a lot of Anything you read contains a lot of information. You cannot remember information. You cannot remember everything. By deciding what is everything. By deciding what is important, you don’t have to important, you don’t have to remember everything. You can remember everything. You can prioritize the information you need prioritize the information you need in order to understand. in order to understand.
- 12. Infer and Predict Infer and Predict Good readers are like Good readers are like detectives. detectives. They use clues to determine They use clues to determine what is happening in a story. what is happening in a story. This is called INFERENCE! This is called INFERENCE!
- 13. Infer and Predict Infer and Predict Good readers also make Good readers also make educated guesses about what educated guesses about what may happen later in the may happen later in the story. story. They use the author’s hints to They use the author’s hints to PREDICT what will most PREDICT what will most likely occur. likely occur.
- 14. Infer and Predict Infer and Predict Ask Yourself: Ask Yourself: What isn’t stated that I have What isn’t stated that I have figured out? figured out? What do I predict will happen? What do I predict will happen? Why do I think so? Why do I think so?
- 15. Infer and Predict Infer and Predict REMEMBER: REMEMBER: KNOWLEDGE + TEXT = INFERENCE KNOWLEDGE + TEXT = INFERENCE
- 16. Visualize Visualize Picture in your mind the images the Picture in your mind the images the author creates with his/her words. author creates with his/her words. Pay close attention to sensory details. Pay close attention to sensory details. For example, if you were there, what For example, if you were there, what would you SEE, HEAR, SMELL, TASTE, would you SEE, HEAR, SMELL, TASTE, TOUCH, FEEL? TOUCH, FEEL?
- 17. Why Visualize? Why Visualize? If you don’t picture the If you don’t picture the events of the story, you will events of the story, you will get bored. get bored. The author’s job is to paint The author’s job is to paint pictures in the reader’s mind. pictures in the reader’s mind. The reader’s job is to visualize The reader’s job is to visualize what the author describes. what the author describes. Why not? Why not?
- 18. Synthesize Synthesize Synthesize is a fancy way of saying Synthesize is a fancy way of saying that you must bring everything that you must bring everything together in the end. In other words, together in the end. In other words, what is the meaning of what you are what is the meaning of what you are reading? reading?
- 19. Synthesize Synthesize Ask Yourself: Ask Yourself: o What does it all mean? What does it all mean? oWhat’s the big idea? What’s the big idea? o Are there questions still left Are there questions still left unanswered? unanswered? o What are the lessons I should learn? What are the lessons I should learn? o What do I think about this book? What do I think about this book?
- 20. Use Fix Up Strategies Use Fix Up Strategies Make sure you are understanding Make sure you are understanding what you are reading. When you run what you are reading. When you run into trouble, (you just don’t get it), use into trouble, (you just don’t get it), use little correction strategies to help you little correction strategies to help you figure out what went wrong. We call figure out what went wrong. We call these methods FIX UP STRATEGIES. these methods FIX UP STRATEGIES.
- 21. Use Fix Up Strategies Use Fix Up Strategies Here are some examples of Fix Up Here are some examples of Fix Up Strategies: Strategies: ☻ Re-read Re-read ☻Underline Underline ☻Use a Dictionary Use a Dictionary ☻Read Aloud Read Aloud ☻Ask for Help Ask for Help
- 22. Why Use Strategies? Why Use Strategies? Strategies create a plan of attack. Then Strategies create a plan of attack. Then you can solve any reading problems you can solve any reading problems yourself. yourself. Strategies help you learn Strategies help you learn HOW HOW to to understand. If you know understand. If you know HOW HOW to to understand, then you are more likely understand, then you are more likely TO TO understand. understand. Strategies help you realize Strategies help you realize HOW HOW you you are thinking so that you can think more are thinking so that you can think more deeply and more consciously. deeply and more consciously.
- 24. From From Finding Nemo Finding Nemo -- Pixar -- Pixar
- 25. Why Use Strategies? Why Use Strategies? REMEMBER: REMEMBER: You may be using some or all of You may be using some or all of these strategies already. You just these strategies already. You just may not know it. However, as you may not know it. However, as you learn to read more complicated learn to read more complicated materials, you WILL NEED to use materials, you WILL NEED to use these strategies purposefully. these strategies purposefully. SO PRACTICE! SO PRACTICE!