2. READ LIKE A READER Thinking About How You Read – Reading Strategies

3. Metacognition: Thinking About How You Think Before you can improve your reading skills, you need to understand what happens in good readers’ minds while they read. You may even do these things already. You just don’t know it…yet.

4. More About Metacognition Strategy: A plan for success! Strategies help readers understand, connect to, and to understand the importance of what they are reading. Good readers also visualize, ask questions about, and understand deeper meaning ( read between the lines – to understand meaning that is not obviously stated )

5. The Reading Strategies There are seven reading strategies. Make Connections Ask Questions & Determine Importance Infer Predict Visualize Synthesize Evaluate

6. Make Connections  Text to Self (similar events in your life)  Text to Text (books, movies, T.V., etc.)  Text to Life (real world events)

7. Make Connections Ask Yourself: Ask Yourself:  What do I already know about this?  Has anything similar ever happened to me?  How would I feel if this happened to me?  Can I relate to the characters?  Does this story remind me of something?

8. Ask Questions  What don’t you get?  What do you get?  What words don’t you understand?  What other questions do you have?  What do you wonder about as you read? Asking questions will help you not get bored!

9. What is Important? Pick and choose which details are the most important to remember. Think about what a teacher might ask on a test. Think about what the author hints might be important later on. (Foreshadowing)

10. Making inferences (guesses) Good readers are like detectives. They use clues to understand the story. This is called INFERENCING!

11. Predicting Good readers use the author’s hints to PREDICT what will most likely occur.

12. Infer and Predict Ask Yourself:  What isn’t written that I have figured out?  What do I predict will happen?  Why do I think so?

13. Visualize  Picture in your mind the images the author creates with his/her words.  If you were there, what would you SEE, HEAR, SMELL, TASTE, TOUCH, FEEL?

14. Synthesize Synthesize is a fancy way of saying that you must bring everything together in the end. In other words, what is the meaning of what you are reading?

15. Synthesize Ask Yourself: o Wo Wo Wo What does it all mean? o Wo Wo Wo What’s the big idea? o Ao Ao Ao Are there questions still left unanswered? o Wo Wo Wo What are the lessons I should learn? o Wo Wo Wo What do I think about this book?

16. Evaluating Readers make judgments while they read. Is this good? If so, what is good about it? The conclusions they make help them decide whether or not what they are reading is valuable and, if so, how they might use it. The conclusions they make help them decide whether or not what they are reading is valuable and, if so, how they might use it.

17. Use Fix Up Strategies If you don’t understand, use FIX UP STRATEGIES.

18. Use Fix Up Strategies Here are some examples of Fix Up Strategies: ☻ Re-read ☻Underline ☻Use a Dictionary ☻Read Aloud ☻Ask for Help

19. Practice Strategies! REMEMBER: You may be using some or all of these strategies already. You just may not know it. As you read more difficult texts, you WILL NEED to use these strategies. SO PRACTICE!