1. Mrs. Jensen’s Guide to Habits of Good Readers

2. Good Readers are ACTIVELY READING

3. Active Reading means
there is a movie screen in your head filling with images, ideas, connections, etc. made by the words you’re reading.

4. Active Reading means
When the screen goes blank or switches channels, good readers are aware of this and stop to fix the screen.

5. Active Reading means
using tools to keep actively involved with the text (highlighters, marking the book with pencils, sticky notes, etc.)

6. Active Reading
requires YOU to make the picture screen in your head. This is harder than having the pictures, ideas, connections made for you already (that is called entertainment). It gets easier the more you do this.

7. Good Readers Limit Distractions
Turn off visual distracters
Turn off auditory distracters
Work in a quiet place
Limit physical distractions
Promote physical attention

8. Good Readers engage the text
With conversations in the margins
With specially developed markings that keep you thinking without stopping your reading

9. Good Readers learn new words
They don’t stop every time they see a word they don’t know . . .

10. But they do Practice guessing words in context
Circle, underline, or note words as they’re reading and go back to some of them
Notice if some words are used repeatedly

11. Good Readers Predict Before Reading
Before reading, they ask questions that they seek to answer while reading
Before reading, they predict where an idea is going, how a character is developing, guess what will happen next

12. Good Readers Comment During Reading
Questions, comments, aggravations, hilarious moments, confusion
They notice what they don’t get and readjust

13. Good Readers Summarize After Reading
After a SUSTAINED effort, they stop and regroup
They use the white space at the beginning and endings of text for summarizing, restating in their own words.

14. Good Readers set goals to meet when they read
Goals may be finding the answer or looking for something in particular
Goals may be time/page goals
Goals may be conceptual

15. Engage conversationally with the text
What do Good Readers Do?
Read Actively
Limit Distractions
Engage conversationally with the text

16. Predict before reading Comment during reading
Learn new words
Predict before reading
Comment during reading

17. Summarize after reading
Set goals for reading

18. As the texts in high school get longer and harder . . .
You may need to develop some different
READING HABITS