Reading

Reading is:

• Making connections between texts, self, and the world

• Navigating and comprehending rigorous texts

• Evaluating information from a variety of formats

• Organizing and applying text-based learning

Students who read:

• Activate, engage, and extend beyond the text

• Make predictions and create visual images as they read

• Understand texts structures 

• Question the text and engage in deep inquiry

• Become content experts

• Evaluate sources for accuracy

The AVID curriculum supports reading through the use of:

• Critical Reading Strategies

• Critical reading strategies for ELL 

• Deep reading strategies

• Depth and complexity Thinking Tools

• Focused Note Taking 

• Frayer vocabulary squares

• Graphic organizers

• Jigsaw

• KWLA (What I Know, What I Want to Know, What I Learned, and How I Will Apply What I Learned)

• Literary Circles

• Purposeful Rereading

• Reading Across Costa’s Levels of Thinking

• Reciprocal teaching  (Role Cards)

• SOAPSTone

• SQ3R (Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review)

• Says, Means, Matters

• Summarize/GIST

• Text annotation (marking the text)

• Think-alouds

• Vocabulary building

• WICOR Strategies - Reading- AVID weekly, AQ5R, KWL, GIST, PQRST, STAR, PMI Charts

• Connecting Processes: Critical Reading and Writing