Compare Characters - Secondary
Comparing Characters is another way of getting information from the
story you are reading. You can use formats you are already familiar
with such as the Venn Diagram or the Comparison Table that is shown
below.
Context Clues
The context of a word is its environment, or the words that
surround it. Context clues are made up of synonyms, definitions, descriptions,
and several other kinds of specific information helpful to understanding
the meaning of a passage or a particular word.
Creative Debate
A Creative Debate is an interaction between two people who support
opposite points of view on a debatable topic.
Directed Reading/Thinking Activities
A Directed Reading/Thinking Activity is useful if you have some background
knowledge about a topic. It does not work for topics that are brand
new to your.
Discussion Web
A Discussion Web is a method to help you focus your attention on
finding facts to support or disagree with an opinion, hypothesis,
or controversial idea.
Final Word
The Final Word is a strategy for discussing assigned reading.
It works this way:
- In a chat group of four, each student chooses what he or she
thinks is an important concept from a reading assignment.
- Taking timed turns, you present your choice and the reasons
you made it.
- You also respond to the choices made by the other students.
Frayer Model
The Frayer Model is a word classification activity. It helps you
to more thoroughly understand the meaning of the word or concept.
Key Quotes
Have you ever heard something and said, "That's exactly right!"
Or, "I wish I was the one who had said that!" Some things
we hear and read are perfect. They express a thought in just the right
way. When we read, we also find quotes that are KEYS to unlocking
the story. They give us important information about a character or
event that helps us understand the story and even say, "AHA -
I get it!"
KWL - Elementary
First let's find out about the story you are going to read.
- By looking at the picture of a story you need to read, what do
you think it will be about? Remember this is called making predictions.
- Now let's have fun with a K-W-L chart! Here's how.
What is K-W-L?
- K stands
for: What do I already KNOW?
- W stands for:
What do I WANT to know?
- L stands for:
What did I LEARN?
KWL - Secondary
K-W-L is a strategy that will help you predict and connect new information
with prior knowledge.
Learning Log
It’s a place where you write with a purpose about what you
are learning in a class – any class. Some purposes for writing
in a Learning Log might be to
- Think about and use reading strategies you may be
using.
- Reflect on what you are reading and learning.
- Reflect on what works and doesn’t work for you as a learner.
- Figure out how to simplify complex material.
- Discover what’s really giving you trouble and why.
- Understand a difficult concept by writing about exactly
what you do and don’t understand.
- Identify and list the questions you need answered about
something in a class.
- Keep track of your progress toward understanding a difficult
concept.
- Summarize and paraphrase reading assignments to check understanding.
- Connect what you don’t know to what you already know.
- Prepare for tests.
- Help you with writing assignments.
- Identify what kind of help you need.
Predictions - Compare
Effective readers make guesses or predictions as they are reading
and change these predictions as they continue to read and find more
clues. the next step is to make comparisons among these predictions.
Predictions, Making - Elementary
Predicting is SMART guessing! It is taking what you already know
about a topic, pulling in pictures, headings, information in the first
paragraph and making a smart guess about what the story is about,
or what is going to happen.
Predictions, Making - Secondary
It is like a GUESS about what is going to happen in the story. Except
it’s better than a guess because you get to use your brain and your
past experience. Predicting is SMART guessing!
Proposition Support
A Proposition/Support Outline is a strategy that:
- Helps the reader recognize different viewpoints, theories,
hypotheses, and debatable assertions made by authors.
- Offers a framework for analyzing the different evidence
an author presents to support a proposition.
- Charts the support a statement has from qualified experts,
facts, and research.
- Helps verify information with reputable sources.
Purpose
What is the Purpose of the selection you are going to read?
- Effective readers figure out the purpose for their reading; is
it for information about history or science; is it for information
about putting a bike together, or making a plate of tacos; is it
an advertisement for new shoes, a newspaper or magazine article;
is it for simple, pure, enjoyable, pleasure?
- They look at the material to find out what it is about, how long
it is, and how it is organized (might be simply several paragraphs,
or organized into chapters, some even with sub-headings).
Q &A Relationships
QAR stands for Question-Answer Relationship. There is a relationship
between the types of questions asked, the answers
expected, and where you can find the answers.
Reading Questions Strategies
Reading Questioning Strategies
are activities to use as you are reading a story.
Response Journal
Can you keep a secret? Lots of people like to write special things
in a book called a diary. A diary is a private place to write special
thoughts. You can also write special thoughts about your reading in
a reading journal. A reading journal is the same as a diary, and different
from a diary. It can be private. It can also be a place where you
write thoughts about your reading to share with others.
Remember when we learned about a K-W-L chart? You will understand
more about what you read if you already know something about your
story or topic. And if you can make a connection to something you
already know, you will understand new information much better. Writing
in a response journal is one way to practice both of these skills.
Retelling/Summarize
Something cool or exciting or sad has happened to you. The first
thing you want to do is tell someone. A good movie gives you the same
feeling. You want to tell someone all about it. Even reading a good
story can make you want to share. That is called re-telling or summarizing.
SQ3R
SQ3R is a very effective way to understand and remember
what you have read.
Story Mapping
Maps make something very big much smaller. They show the main points
in a picture and help us see how to get where we want to go. They
show direction, the main roads, the big cities and towns, the obstacles,
or rivers and mountains, and they help us figure out directions to
get to the end of our journey.
A story map does the same thing! It shows the main ideas, the big
characters and events, the obstacles or problems that might prevent
the characters from getting where they want to go, and it takes us
to the end of the story where everything is solved.
TELLS
TELLS is a great pre-reading strategy to use when you are getting
ready to read a new book. TELLS stands for = Title, Examine, Look,
Look, Setting.
Think Aloud Questions
They are questions to ask yourself while you are reading.
Venn Diagram
A Venn diagram is a great visual or graphic organizer. It will help
you compare and contrast ideas and information as you read.
Writing a Summary
A summary is a shortened version of a piece of writing.
- When you summarize a story, you group ideas together and
tell just the main points.
- When you summarize a nonfiction article for a report, you express
the author’s point of view in your own words by grouping
ideas together and including only the main details.
- A good summary introduces the ideas in the same order as the
original author.
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