15 strategies for reading

15 strategies for reading

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  15 Strategies forReading Before, During, and After
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  5 Strategies, BeforeReading • Skimming • Brainstorming • Building Background • KWL • Prior Knowledge
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  Skimming • Search mainideas • Noting organization • Paying attention to detail • Looking for key words or facts
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  Brainstorming • Using thetitle to think up what the book is about • Working in pairs or groups
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  Building Background • Helpbuild background knowledge about the book • Help better understand what is happening in the book • Uses the strategy if the students have little knowledge of the book
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  KWL • Graphic organizer •Class discussion • Helps students figure out what they already know • What they want to know • What they learned
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  Prior Knowledge • Astrategy that helps students discuss what they already know • Shares knowledge with other students so they are all on the same page • Helps students better their comprehension
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  5 Strategies, DuringReading • Context Clues • Partner Reading • Story Maps • Direct Reading Thinking Activity • Reciprocal Teaching
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  Context Clues • Readingaround the material to better understand a word • Broaden the vocab of students
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  Partner Reading • Peerhelp • More help on reading • Self and peer monitoring on reading
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  Story Maps • Agraphic organizer • Helps learn the story elements • Mostly focuses on the beginning, middle or end in the story
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  Direct Reading ThinkingActivity • DRTA • Comprehension strategy • Help students ask the right questions about the story
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  Reciprocal Teaching • Werethe students become the teacher in a small group • Comprehension strategy • Summarizes, predicting, question generating, and clarification
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  5 Strategies, AfterReading • Question-Answer Relationship • Summarizing • Visual Imagery • Paragraph Shrinking • Exit Slips
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  Question-Answer Relationship • Helpsunderstand the different types of questions • Finds out that some questions are “Right There” questions, “Think and Search”, and “On my Own”
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  Summarizing • After readingthe students will give a small overview about what they read • Comprehension strategy • Students work together, alone or in a class group
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  Visual Imagery • Afterreading the students will create a visual picture in their head of what the book was about or a specific scene in the book. • Comprehension strategy • Students work usually alone
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  Paragraph Shrinking • Givethe main points of the paragraph • Works with a small group to read, pause and explain what they have just read • Comprehension strategy
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  Exit Slips • Sheetsof paper that the students will write on to answer the questions the teacher askes at the end of the class • Comprehension strategy • Helps the teacher know what level of understanding the student is at