WARM UP FOR READING!

● Preview text features – ● Predict what you will learn, based on: What types of conventions* are used? How can they help you understand?

*Nonfiction Conventions: pictures, captions, labels, charts, maps, graphs, bold terms, glossary, index, diagrams, timeline, fact boxes, primary sources

Skim and Scan... Quickly review the pages, looking for specific terms.

Connect What information can you connect to that you already know about this topic? Text-to-Text, Text-to-Self, Text-to-World

INTERACTING WITH TEXT!

Self Monitor - Does this make sense? What information fascinated me? What new thing or things did I learn? What confused me? What did I do to get “unconfused?”

Visualize Make a mind-movie of what is going on in the book.

Predict What do you think will happen next?

FIX IT UP Strategies Reread Use context clues (words, pictures, captions) Ask a buddy Read on, then go back Vary your reading rate Pick out important ideas Make connections

REFLECTION

Reflect on what you read What did you learn? Were your predictions accurate?

Synthesize Connect to your prior knowledge.

Summarize What were the most important ideas in this section? What details support these main ideas?

Evaluate ● What do you think about the information you read? ● What questions do you still have after reading it?