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READING STRATEGIES
Before, During, After
Reading
By Monica Aguilar
READING Before(B) reading is time to activate
your prior knowledge and make predictions.
During (D) reading is time to interact with the text and you.
After(A) reading is time to reflect on what you read.
All three together help you to obtain meaning from the writing text.
BEFORE READING Activate your prior knowledge. You learn new vocabulary words. Increase interest in reading the text. Generate ideas.
READING PURPOSE You have to ask yourself before reading,
Why I am reading this topic? I am reading for enjoyment, to obtain information, or for special task.
Example: Topic: Volcanoes
Question: Why I am reading this topic?
Answer: To obtain information about volcanoes.
TEXT PREVIEW
Survey the text before reading. Look for pictures, heading, and title to
make predictions of what the text is going to be about.
You can think aloud while you preview the text, for example you say aloud: it look like is about volcanoes, how they form and how they look like.
NEW VOCABULARY WORDS Identify new vocabulary words before reading. Find the definition using the glossary in the
back of your book or use a dictionary. Create a graphic organizer in where you write
the word, the definition, a sentence, and a drawing.
Example: Vocabulary word: Volcano Definition: It is a mountain
where gas, ask, or melted rock come out of the ground.
Sentence: I see a volcano in the steep of the mountain.
Drawing:
K W L CHART Create a KWL chart that consist in
making a list of (K) what I know about the topic, (W) what I want to know about the topic, (L) what I learn about the topic.
Example: Before reading you write what do you know about volcanoes in the first line of your chart.
GENERATE IDEAS You can generate ideas by using the
brainstorming technique. You are going to brainstorm what you
know about volcanoes. Example: You can work with your
classmates and create a web in where everybody can share ideas about volcanoes are.
DURING READING
You interact with the text book. Writing notes help you to remember the
text. Ask questions to yourself.
MENTAL IMAGE During reading create a mental images
on what you are reading after each paragraph, you can even draw a picture after each paragraph.
QUESTIONS Ask question to yourself about what you
want to know about the topic? You can write your answer in your KWL chart that you create.
Your can use the headings to write more questions and find the answer of those questions during reading.
Example: I want to learn about volcanoes. Heading question: What are the kinds of volcanic landform?
TEXT STRUCTURE Look for signal words during reading
because it can help you to know if the author is describing, comparing, contrasting or is a cause and effect.
Example: Topic: Volcanoes The author state in the book: “A volcanic
crater is an opening or depression at the top of a volcano caused by eruptions”. The word cause is a signal word that is a structure of cause and effect.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION Highlight and note taking the important
information. Example: The word volcano is in every
page in the textbook. Highlight volcano and write a note of the information that is after the word volcano.
DOUBLE ENTRY JOURNAL Create a chart that consist in two
columns and one column write a sentence from the text and the other column your reaction.
Example:
Sentence or quote Reaction
Not all volcanoes actively erupt.
I though that all volcanoes make eruption.
AFTER READING Summarize about the reading Reflect about the reading. Retell the story to review. Write story on your own
REVIEW Retell the reading to review with intent
to remember. You can retell the story orally to your
family or to your teacher or friends.
QUESTION Write about what you learn about the
reading using your KWL chart. Write in the third column where says
what did I learn. Ask yourself if all your predictions and
questions where answer.
SUMMARY Write a summary about the reading.
MY OWN STORY Create a story on your own words about
the topic using the new vocabulary words that you learn. For example: Write a story about volcanoes using the new vocabulary words like lava, eruption, magma, crater, tectonic plates.
DRAWING Make a drawing to have a visual
representation of your reading and you can remember what you read.
Example: make a drawing of a volcano and label the volcano.
COMPREHENSION Reading is comprehension and
comprehension is thinking. Remember always use this strategies to
help you to understand the meaning of the text
Remember to use your previous knowledge background to make a connection with the book and your knowledge.
Reading open your mind.
READING QUOTE
REFERENCE Bursuck, W.D., Damer, M. (2011). Teaching Reading
to Students Who are at Risk or Have Disabilities. Upper Saddle River: Pearson Education Inc.
Holt McDougal. (2012). Florida Science Fusion. Houghton Harcourt Publishing Company.
http://www.adlit.org/strategy_library/ http://www.pgcps.pg.k12.md.us/~
elc/readingacross1.html http://
www.pleasval.k12.ia.us/studyskills/studentreadingstrategies.htm
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