Good Readers

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Good Readers

• Reading in the Upper Grades

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Good Readers

• Make connections
• Good readers relate what they read to their own
  lives by connecting it to prior knowledge,
  looking for similarities between the text and
  what they have experienced.

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Good Readers

• Ask questions
• Good readers are engaged by clarifying understand
  and making meaning out of what they are reading.
• Why is this happening?
• What does this mean?

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Good Readers

• Visualize
• Good readers create pictures in their mind as
  they read.

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Good Readers

• Draw inferences and predict
• Good readers take what they already know, gather
  clues from text, make a judgment, and predict
  what will happen next.

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Good Readers

• Determine important ideas
• Good readers focus on essential ideas and
  important information or key ideas.

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Good Readers

• Synthesize information
• Good readers combine new information with
  existing knowledge to form an original idea of
  text gaining new insights.

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Good Readers

• Monitor comprehension and clarify
• Good readers know when they understand what they
  read and when they do not, trying to correct the
  misunderstandings as they arise.

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Good Readers Ask These Questions Before They Read

• What do I need to know before I read?
• What do I already know about this topic?
• How is the text organization going to help me?
• What is the reason I am reading this text?
• What is the authors purpose?

Good Reader Bookmark What do I need to know
before I read? What do I already know about this
topic? How is the text organization going to help
me? What is the reason I am reading this
text? What is the authors purpose? Am I reading
for my own pleasure? Am I reading for
school? Does the title tell me what I am going to
read about? Are there pictures, graphs, maps,
titles, or headings that can help me? Can I
create a graphic organizer that will help me
organize the text?
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Good Readers Ask These Questions Before They Read

• Am I reading for my own pleasure?
• Am I reading for school?
• Does the title tell me what I am going to read
  about?
• Are there pictures, graphs, maps, titles, or
  headings that can help me?
• Can I create a graphic organizer that will help
  me organize the text?

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What Good Readers Do As They Read ---Text
Processing

• How does this connect to what I know?
• How does what I am reading compare to what I
  thought I knew?
• Does what I am reading make sense?
• Do I need to code the text and note what is
  important, what I dont understand, and what I
  need to reread?
• Do I need to mark important words with highlight
  or sticky notes?

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What Good Readers Do As They Read ---Text
Processing

• Do I need to go back and reread any part of the
  text?
• Do the pictures, charts, graphs or visuals help
  me understand what I am reading?
• Do I agree with the way the problem was solved?
  Am I surprised about the information?
• Are there clues to help me make predictions?

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What Good Readers Do As They Read ---Text
Processing

• What is the plot or theme?
• What mental pictures do I see?
• What connection can I make
• What or who is this story about?
• When and where does the story take place?
• How and why do the events happen?
• Is there a specific problem that is solved?
• Do I see words I dont understand?

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What Good Readers Do After They Read -- Reflection

• Did I find answers to the questions?
• Did I learn what I wanted to learn?
• Were there other questions I found?
• Where there questions or problems I didn't find?
• What do I know now that I did not know before?
• What is the most surprising or interesting think
  I read?

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What Good Readers Do After They Read -- Reflection

• What new vocabulary did I learn?
• What do I remember?
• How do I feel about what Ive read?
• Does my graphic organizer make sense?
• Can I restate the main points in my own words?
• How can I apply what I read to my schoolwork and
  life?
• Is there a lesson in the story?

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Myths About Good Readers

• Good readers skip letters and words.
• Good reader look at all of the words and almost
  all of the letter in words to seek familiar
  letter patterns in words.

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Myths About Good Readers

• Hearing inner voices is bad.
• Good reader have an inner voice in their heads
  that helps them create meanings. Different
  characters have different voices.

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No Inner Voice?

• Students who do not hear inner voices should
  think first when the teacher asks a question and
  not blurt out answers. They should pause and
  then ask a partner the same question. Then
  respond when the teacher calls on one of the
  partners for an answer.

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No Inner Voice?

• Students must be trained to think of an answer in
  their heads before blurting it aloud.

Students who have no inner voice often read out
loud when others read silently.
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Myths About Good Readers

• Good readers always use context.
• Good readers recognize words without using
  context. When the reader has to sound words out
  letter-by-letter, they may have no chance of
  figuring out the word. Good reader self-correct
  their misunderstanding by using content.

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Myths About Good Readers

• Spelling patterns help all reader decode words.
• Good readers use spelling patterns and words they
  already know to help figure out new words
  (chunking breaking big words into manageable
  parts).