Pre Reading Strategies

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Pre Reading Strategies

• Chapter 1

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What is reading?
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Prior Knowledge

• Activate prior knowledge
• What do I already know?
• Check new knowledge against prior knowledge
• Does this make sense based on what I already
  know?
• Assess growth or change in knowledge base
• What did I learn?
• Page 9

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The Reading Process

• Before reading
• Determine purpose
• Skim to activate prior knowledge
• Check out text features (bold, italics, graphs)
  and text structure/organization (p. 13)

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Read Around the Text
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The Reading Process Continued

• During reading
• Importance of asking questions
• Make questions based on headings, subheadings and
  bold words
• Reread what you dont understand
• Look up new words (dictionary, glossary)
• Make a picture (visualize) what you are reading
• Restate the ideas in your own words
• Take notes, annotate, highlight, use sticky notes
  (page 15- 16)

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Two Column Notes

• Read the selection.
• Go back and find the main ideas. Use headings to
  help you.
• Write the main ideas on the left-hand side of a T
  chart.
• On the right-hand side, use bullets to list the
  subtopics and details you want to remember.

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The Reading Process Continued

• After reading
• Summarize the important information
• Make sure you answered your original questions
• Connect new information with prior knowledge
  (text to text, text to self, text to world, text
  to movie, text to another person)
• Write about what you have read
• Review notes often
• Practice (page 25, 30)

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VIPs and Sum It Up

• Highlight three VIPs (very important points).
• Create an A B C topic sentence.
• A identify the text by its title and author
• B select a strong verb (do not use is or was)
• C finish your thought with the big idea
• Now add on your three VIPs. Be sure to write them
  as complete sentences. Use transition words to
  increase sentence fluency.

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Verb Bank

• acknowledges identifies advises illustrates
• captures presents clarifies proposes
• defends recommends demonstrates shows
• explores suggests expresses supports
• features tells
• (Avoid using is/was)
• Practice (page 45)