G+Reading+Strategies

Story Elements**Reading Strategies**
=**Expect the text to make sense!** =




 * **Plan and Monitor **
 * Skim – preview titles and photos
 * Predict -what is it about
 * Question - ask yourself "Why?", "Who?" and "What is next?"
 * Preview and set a purpose
 * look for clue or hints about the text - preview the text




 * Predict and Confirm - click here for more information
 * study the photos and captions
 * for NON-fiction, look at other graphics such as charts, tables, and graphs
 * make personal connections to the text - relate it to your own experiences




 * **Set your Purpose **
 * for NON-Fiction, write down your questions and look for the answers
 * for Fiction, keep your questions in mind, make predictions and confirm or change predictions




 * **Clarifying Ideas**
 * Note confusion - stop reading when something is unclear or confusing
 * Read on - the next part of the text may help you understand
 * Reread - read it again
 * Identify the main idea
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">Break up sentences - look at the parts of the sentences to see how they connect
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">Slow down - just read it slower and more carefully
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">Relate - connect the text to your own experiences
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">For NON-fiction, make a 5W's chart: ask who? what? when? where? why?
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">For NON-fiction, take notes answering your 5W's.


 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">**Clarifying Vocabulary**
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">Reread - read it again
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 250%;">Look for familiar word parts such as prefixes, suffixes, and roots.
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 250%;">Use what you already know to make connections.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">Context clues - look for other words that may mean the same thing, <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">or a definition of the word. Look especially at the root words.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">Analyze clues - check out what is said, look for a definition
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">Check for relationships - look for connections between sentences
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">Check out your meaning - substitute <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;"> or replace the word with one you know in its place to see if it make sense
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">Look for examples of the word.