Reading Strategies

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Reading Strategies

• "Once you learn to read, you will be forever
  free."
• Frederick Douglass

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• Visualizing
• Connecting
• Questioning
• Making Inferences
• Determining Importance
• Analyzing and Synthesizing

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1. Visualizing Reading Journal Due September 17
2. Making Connections Reading Journal Due September 24
3. Questioning Reading Journal Due October 1
4. Making Inferences Reading Journal Due October 9
5. Determining Importance Reading Journal Due October 15
6. Analyzing and Synthesizing Reading Journal Due October 22
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• If I cant picture it, I cant understand it.
• ---Albert Einstein

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Visualization is

• A reading strategy
• A way to help you understand what you read
• An important tool for reading fiction and
  non-fiction
• Making a picture in your mind

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• Visualization is directly related to language
  comprehension, language expression, and critical
  thinking.

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How do you visualize?

• Use the words in the text to make a picture in
  your mind
• Use your background knowledge to help us
  visualize what is in the text
• Different people bring different background
  knowledge, and so they visualize differently

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Try This

• The purple flowers bloomed, lifting their petals
  up to the sun. They were surrounded by the bright
  green lily pads that covered the surface of the
  pond.
• Can you picture this in your mind?

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Why visualize?

• Visualization helps us to process text more
  accurately. We read more carefully and it helps
  us remember.
• It also helps us to figure out what is going on
  in the story

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Prior Knowledge

• Sometimes we are not giving a full description
  of a person or setting. We must fill in the
  blanks with our background knowledge.

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• A great way to use our visualization strategy
  when reading our text is to sketch the pictures
  that are created in our mind. Think about
  practising this skill when you are reading short
  stories, novels, plays and poetry.

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What have we learned?

• Visualization is an important reading strategy
• We need to use the authors clues and our own
  background knowledge to create a picture of what
  is happening
• Everyone builds unique mental images

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Lets practice!

• "The barn was very large. It was very old. It
  smelled of hay......It smelled of the
  perspiration of tired horses and the wonderful
  sweet breath of patient cows......It smelled of
  grain and of harness dressing and of axle grease
  and of rubber boots and of new rope. It was full
  of all sorts of things that you find in barns
  ladders, grindstones, pitchforks, monkey
  wrenches, lawn mowers, snow shovels, ax handles,
  milk pails, water buckets, empty grain sacks, and
  rusty rat traps. It was the kind of barn that
  swallows like to build their nests in. It was the
  kind of barn that children like to play in."

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Artistic Creation Journal

• 1. Create a collage that depicts all of the
  elements of the novel you have read up to this
  point. You can choose to focus on the setting, or
  characters or both. You can cut out pictures and
  words from magazines/ newspaper and the computer
  or create your own visual images . The entire
  piece of paper needs to be covered in images.
  Remember to use your background knowledge and
  author clues to fill in the blanks. For
  example, if they have not mentioned a physical
  description of the character then you can take
  creative license to create your own ideas of what
  they may look like. Write a short paragraph on
  the back describing your inspiration/ source of
  ideas for your work of art.