strategies for effective reading

7/28/2019 Strategies for Effective Reading

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A G U I D E F O R T E A C H E R S A N D Y O U N G L E A R N E R S

15 Strategies foreffective reading


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Effective Reading Strategies

Metacognition

THINK about what you re thinking

Monitoring comprehension

BE AWARE of what you do understandIDENTIFY what you do not understand

Use appropriate strategies to resolve problems in comprehensionFIND where the difficulty occurs

RESTATE the difficult passage in your own words

LOOK BACK through the text

LOOK FORWARD through the text


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Effective Reading Strategies (c/d)

graphic organisers

4 types of questionsAbout fact About opinion

right there in the text questions author and I

think n search questions my own thoughts

Chain of events charts

Venn diagramms

Story map

Cause/Effect


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Strategies for learners I

Identify where the difficulty occurse.g. "I don't understand the second paragraph on page 76.

Identify what the difficulty is

e.g."I don't get what the author means when she says, 'Arriving in America was a

milestone in my grandmother's life.'

Restate the difficult sentence or passage in their own words

e.g. "Oh, so the author means that coming to America was a very important event inher grandmother's life."

Look back through the texte.g."The author talked about Mr. McBride in Chapter 2, but I don't remember muchabout him. Maybe if I reread that chapter, I can figure out why he's acting this waynow."

Look forward in the text for information

e.g."The text says, 'The groundwater may form a stream or pond or create a wetland.People can also bring groundwater to the surface.' Hmm, I don't understand how


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Strategies for learners II

GENERATE questions

RECOGNIZE story structure

SUMMARIZE


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Direct explanation

Demonstration

Guided practice

Application


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Teaching Vocabulary

Use words to teach words

start at the root

work with word blocks

o consider the prefix

o consider the suffix

o consider the stem

explain multiple meanings


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Teaching Active Verbs That Describe Work and

Analytical Thinking

yieldmeanprovepostulateestimatecompare

generalizenotedelineateacknowledgedetermineset forth

maintaininvestigatedeviseassume illustratesuggestinsist

consider

definehypothesizenarratepredictdepictdistinguish

detaildeducebelieveassessconstructargue illuminate

clarifyproposeinferclassifysynthesizeevaluate

introduce

construeinformsum upderivespeculatedetermine

evaluatereiterate revealindicateimplystateinvoke

summarizesimplifyreportinterpretspecifydesignate

characterize

presentcalculateattributediscover employrepresentassert

extrapolateanalyzedisagreemeasurechallengeprovide

restrictpoint outguideorganizesupportobtain

decide


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Verbs used to describe phaenomena

dischargeexchange

emitexudeconvergecontractcontinuebondencompassdepositinvadereclaimprecedeorientactivatecondenselink

appearsuperposedisperseaccelerate overlieseparatetransmitinteract

extendtrend

mixinterlock

accessunderliepermeaterestoreinfluencedistributeceaseenrichsuperimposerequirecrystallizedisseminatetransfer emanatesurroundcarry

behaveconstrainplungeslowfusetraverseoverlap

evolveabandon

saturateallow

recordinvertrotateascendbisectdisintegratepenetrate

radiatecombinebombardexchangeforceoccurquickendeterioratejoinoriginatedividecontaincirculatelagform

convertrupture

descendcede

propelhalt scattereliminateexertabsorbelongatefractureproducemigratedominateisolatesinteraccrueforecastterminate

transectalterstreamlinecollapsecoalescerepelcurb


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Coherence and Cohesion

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