1. Reading voices
What our mind may say while we are reading...

2. Reading Voices
Readers have different types of voices going on in the heads. By listening to those voices, readers can monitor their comprehension. They can know when they are stuck and how to get unstuck. Which voice is going on in your head while you read?

3. Reading Voices
Reciting Voice (waste of time voice) The voice a reader hears when he is only reciting and not drawing meaning from the text.
This voice causes readers to Lose track of what is being read
Stray from the text
Forget what is read
Not care about the reading
Turn off the reciting voice by rereading and giving yourself a job or a purpose to read for.

4. Reading Voices
Conversation Voice (useful voice) The voice that has a conversation with the text. It represents the readers thinking as he/she talk back to the text in an interactive way.
This voice helps readers to:
Relate to the text
Make connections between the book and the reader
Ask questions
Give opinions
Talk back to the text
Remember what is read

5. Reading Voices However, this voice can take two forms.
Conversation Voice /Form 1
Interactive voice: The voice inside the reader’s head that makes connections, asks questions, identifies confusions, agrees and disagrees with ideas. This voice deepens the reader’s understanding of the text.
This voice is necessary for close reading.

6. Reading Voices Conversation Voice /Form 2
Distracting voice: The voice inside the reader’s head that pulls him away from the meaning of the text. It begins a conversation with the reading but gets distracted by a connection, a question, or a random thought. Soon the reader begins to think about something unrelated to the text.
Effectively using the Close Reading strategy will help the reader disengage this voice.

7. How does a good reader know when he is no longer reading effectively or paying attention to the text? Good question!
Ask students:

8. If one of these things happens as you read, it is time to stop and fix it!
The inner voice in your head stops having conversations with the text
The camera inside your head shuts off and you can no longer visualize what is happening
Your mind wanders away from the text
You cannot remember or retell anything you read

9. If one of these things happens as you read, it is time to stop and fix it!
You can’t answer questions or find evidence to support your purpose for reading
Characters are reappearing in the text and you cannot recall who they are

10. Realize when they stop paying attention
And when good readers don't understand, they use Fix-Up Strategies
Realize when they stop paying attention
Reread
Change reading rate (speed)
Write their questions as they read

11. Pay attention to pictures and text features
Use these features to help them
Headings
Bold-faced and italicized text
Charts, graphs, pictures
Chapter summaries

12. Form pictures in their minds and make inferences
Use personal examples of content presented in text
Connect to something similar you read or saw before

13. Draw conclusions: Question Author’s Purpose
Determine “why” author is writing passage
Think about point of view
Think about the intended audience