1. Summer Reading Academy Leaving Tracks

2. Goal

3. In touch with our Reader Give your top ten reasons why you like to read (in a minute)

4. Reading is Thinking More than saying the words--getting meaning from the words Inner Conversation ● Activate background knowledge ● Questioning ● Visualization ● Connection ● Inferring

5. Tracks in your Mind= Inner Conversation Show me the money-show me your thinking

6. Connecting makes personal helps to remember longer (brain and short term memory) Connect new learning with background knowledge. 1.Merge thinking with new information and react to it. 2.Connect background knowledge to new information. 3.Recognize that background knowledge may be inaccurate and revise thinking accordingly.

7. Language of Connecting This reminds me of I noticed I know I learned I remember when I saw that Someone told me about On TV last night they were talking about Wow-if I had been then I would have…..

8. Questioning Keeps you moving forward Creates dialogue with the text If you “aren’t” questioning, you aren’t reading!!! Inventor-search-seek-find answers Detective-search-seek-find answers

9. Read with a Question in mind???? I wonder? What if? What? Where? When? How? I learned….. KWL Chart

10. Visualization ● seeing ● hearing ● touching ● smelling ● feeling ● taste 1. helps remember 2. makes it personal; we become attached to characters, setting.

11. Unfamiliar Words BK+TC=Inference We make inferences all the time. Look at the words/sentences around the unknown word

12. Text Features Compare and contrast :)