BEFORE, DURING & AFTER READING
Before Reading:
- Determine prior knowledge - What do you already know about this topic/story?
- Examine text structure - How is the text set up?
- Set a purpose for reading - Why are you reading this text?
- Make Predictions - What might you learn from reading this text / what might happen?
During Reading:
- Visualize - Making mental pictures or sensory images as you reads
- Summarize -
- Confirm / reject predictions - Reread to determine if your predictions need to be adjusted.
- Self-monitor - Stop to be sure you are comprehending the text.
- Adjust reading rate - Read faster or slower to help with comprehension.
After Reading:
- Paraphrase important information
- Make connections - Linking what’s in the text to your personal experience, world events, or other texts.
- Make inferences - Predicting, hypothesizing, interpreting, and drawing conclusions about the text.
- Draw conclusions
- Analyze (using information from the text)
THE 5 FINGER TEST
Follow these steps to find a "just right" book for independent reading:
*Open your book to the middle.
*Open up your hand.
*Read a page of the book to yourself.
*Put down a finger every time you find a “tricky” word.
(1 Finger = Easy, 2 Fingers = Just Right, 3 Fingers = A little bit hard, but it could be fun to try, 4 Fingers = Difficult to read - Try reading with parents or friends, 5 Fingers = This book is probably too hard to be fun - Save it for later, or have an adult read it to you)