Teaching Effective

Reading Strategies

Identify

•Key strategies good readers use

•Several teaching strategies.

Design

•Lesson plans that target improved reading comprehension.

Summarize

•Today’s lesson by creating an acrostic.

You will be able to:

Activating Background Knowledge

Explain one way you activate background knowledge before beginning a new story, book, or lesson…

Background Knowledge

Word Webs

Journal Make a List

Think, Pair, Share

Activating Background Knowledge

Good readers make connections•What does it mean to connect with a

character or situation in a story?

Activating Background KnowledgeGood readers make connections

• What does it mean to connect with a character or situation in a story?

Good Connections:

Reflecting on similar experiences to the character of a story• Lead to understanding character’s

thoughts, feelings, motivations, etc

Recalling experiences or knowledge related to the setting of a story• Increases context and allows the

reader to enter the writer’s setting

Good Connections:

Are not random thoughts the story reminds you of

Do not require the exact same circumstances or

setting to be valid

Concept Teaching

Activating Background KnowledgeGood readers make connections

• What does it mean to connect with a character or situation in a story?

Verbal or written summary of a passage or event in the story

Recall and Reflection of knowledge or an event that leads to

connection with the story

A deeper understanding of the characters, setting, or

plot of a story

Formulating QuestionsGood readers formulate questions.

Why do good readers ask questions?

Formulating QuestionsGood readers formulate questions.• What does it mean to connect with a character or situation in a story?

Why do good readers ask questions?

Questions

Keep the reader

engaged

Lead to

predicti

ons

How will he respond to that?

What is she

up to?

How in the

world is he

going to get

out of this

one?

Formulating QuestionsHow do we model and encourage the asking of questions?

Students Formulating Questions

Use good questions as

writing prompts.

Pausing during read aloud to pose a

question or allow students to ask one.

Explain why good readers ask questions.

VisualizingGood readers create mental images of characters, settings, and scenes of the stories they read.

VisualizingGood readers create mental images of characters, settings, and scenes of the stories they read. Why is visualizing key to improved comprehension?

Context• Entering the world

the author has created

Connection

• Captures imagination.

• Greater understanding of characters

Organization

• Keeping the characters straight

VisualizingGood readers create mental images of characters, settings, and scenes of the stories they read. Why is visualizing key to improved comprehension?

Story Boards• Combines

drawing & summarizing

Models• Dioramas• Recreating a

scene

Newspapers• A look into the

world where the story takes place

VisualizingGood readers create mental images of characters, settings, and scenes of the stories they read.

Story Boards• Combines

drawing & summarizing

Facilitates :•Retelling the story.•Sequence of events•Identifying major events and turning points

VisualizingGood readers create mental images of characters, settings, and scenes of the stories they read.

Models• Dioramas• Recreating

a scene

Facilitates :•Visualization•Options for students who are not great artists•Visual aide for retelling a scene

VisualizingGood readers create mental images of characters, settings, and scenes of the stories they read.

Models• Dioramas• Recreating

a scene

Facilitates :•Visualization•Options for students who are not great artists•Visual aide for retelling a scene

VisualizingGood readers create mental images of characters, settings, and scenes of the stories they read.

Newspapers• A look into the

world where the story takes place

Summarizing & ParaphrasingGood readers process and internalize a story by retelling it.

Good teachers teach their students how to summarize instead of just asking them to do it.

• Getting down to the heart of the matter• Restating the gist in a brief manner• Processing information and restating it in a different

way• A skill that can be practiced using many different

learning activities

Summarizing is:

• Copying the source• Restating all the facts• Using a thesaurus to change the words Summarizing

is not:

Summarizing & ParaphrasingGood readers process and internalize a story by retelling it.

Paraphrase: a restatement of a text, passage, or work giving the meaning in another form

• Processing and retelling a story or body of work in your own words

• An academic skill useful for study as well as a vital part of research and other academic writing.

Paraphrasing is:

• Necessarily brief• Using a thesaurus to change the words• A short cut to citing an author’s workParaphrasing

is not:

Summarizing & ParaphrasingGood readers process and internalize a story by retelling it.

•Tell Students key ideas or concepts to look for before they begin reading. “I want you to notice…”

Priming

•Read select passages as opposed to chapters before pausing.

Chunking

•3-2-1- Summarize!

•Save the last quote!

•Acrostic

Modeling/Directing

Summarizing & ParaphrasingGood readers process and internalize a story by retelling it.

Make an acrostic for one of the following words to summarize what you have learned about teaching reading today.

Read

Reading

Strategy

Readers

Summarizing & ParaphrasingGood readers process and internalize a story by retelling it.