While you read, DRIVE with the text'

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While you read, DRIVE with the text.
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Reading is a Two Way Street
Your Understanding
Your Confusion
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Direct Your AwarenessMonitor Your Metacognition
Monitor Your Comprehension When Im lost, I look
in the book. Text Features Reread
Passage Internet Search When I am lost, I look
in my head. I already know Ask teacher Ask tutor

• Monitor Your Mind
• Visual
• Stop and draw
• Stop and write
• Stop and highlight
• Auditory
• Stop and talk
• Stop and ask
• Stop and think
• Kinesthetic
• Stop and walk
• Stop and write
• Stop and draw
• Stop and highlight

Monitor Your Pace Green means go Let me see what
I know Yellow means slow Theres a word/idea I
dont know Orange means stop Questions that
pop Red means review I learned something new
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• Section Three D.R.I.V.E. while you read
• In the dictionary, driving is defined by being
  able to steer a vehicle from point A to point B.
  Sure you may be able to DRIVE a CAR but can you
  drive
• A boat a bus a tractor trailer a motorcycle a
  stockcar
• Each of the examples above requires different
  skills to be able to steer the vehicle from point
  A to point B. In fact, they are so different you
  must take a driving test to prove you have the
  skills and then obtain a license in order to
  safely DRIVE each vehicle.
• This is the case for most reading materials. Each
  text you encounter requires a different set of
  skills to make meaning. Why do you think you have
  to take a test for each class you take? Believe
  me, its not because your teacher loves to grade
  papers. You have to prove you have the skills to
  read and understand the text in each subject
  (content area).
• Lets talk speed. Can you drive fast every day
  regardless of the road or weather? Of course not.
  Police set different speed limits depend on the
  road for safe driving. Driving on a highway is
  different than driving on a country back road. If
  you dont follow the safe driving speed, you
  could end up with a speeding ticket or worse,
  someone could get hurt.
• This is the case for most reading materials.
  Before you begin to read, you must look around
  and determine the speed that will help you make
  meaning. For example, if you need a phone number,
  you wouldnt start on the first page and read
  every name until you found the person. Youre
  speed would be fast, skipping pages until you
  reached the first letter of the name. Slowing
  down, you scan the page until you find the last
  name. If there are several with the same last
  name, you may slow down even more and begin to
  read each name one at a time. If you read a novel
  like this, you would hurt your chance of making
  meaning.
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How about the weather? Is driving on a sunny day
the same as driving                    
in a thunderstorm                     in newly
laid snow                     in a
blizzard                     on ice The weather
conditions determine the level of attention
required to reach your destination safely. On a
sunny day, you may lean back in your seat, sing
along with the radio and talk with your friends.
On the other hand, if it snowed while you were at
work, you know the drive home will require a
heightened level of attention. You sit up in your
seat to focus on the road, you calculate the
difference in stopping time and you stay further
behind cars. This is the case for most reading
materials. Each text requires a different level
of attention. When you are browsing through a
magazine, youre relaxed and reading for fun.
However, if you are reading information for a
text, you are focused and reading to show
understanding. The skills, speeds and levels of
attention depend on the text and purpose of your
reading. In the next few chapters you will
practice driving your thoughts while you read to
learn information. Sit back, relax and enjoy the
ride!                       Get involved with
your thoughts dont let your mind control you.
Take action. Reading to learn is different from
learning to read.