Reading Strategies

• Previewing and Predicting
• Reading to see if predictions make sense
• Self-correcting when reading doesn't make sense
• Thinking about what would make sense
• Using what you already know (background knowledge Finding evidence to support a point
• Comparing/contrasting
• Identifying important information
• Using monitoring strategies to identify unknown words, phrase, ideas
• Building vocabulary through reading
• creating pictures in your head
• Asking yourself (or the text) questions
• Reading what you don't know slowly and what you do know quickly
• Analyzing, interpreting, inferring
• Distinguishing between fact and opinion
• Use guided reading strategies
• Visualizing strategies

• Choosing a topic or focus for your journal entry
• Supporting ideas with information from , your own life, or other gooks
• Elaborating By using details
• Writing with a purpose and for an audience
• trying out dialogue
• Using figurative , descriptive language
• Using sketches and illustrations to spark or extend ideas
• Developing criteria for effective writing
• Writing a response from a character's point of view
• Incorporating ideas from Post-it Notes into a written response
• Incorporating ideas raised during discussion into written response

Asking Questions

Select a book and model "thinking questions".

• BIG QUESTION - What advice would you give the character or How would the story be different if the setting was different?
• Discourage SMALL QUESTIONS - Where did the character live