Active Reading Strategies

Why should a reader talk with someone else about what they have read?

• To make sure they've memorized the passage.

• To allow time to come up with new ideas.

• To make sure they know how to pronounce the author's name and the names of characters.

• To make sure they understood what they read and improve their understanding on parts they struggled with when reading.

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RF.5.4B

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RF.5.4C

Read the statement below and choose which reading strategy it is describing. "I read the paragraph a second time because I realized I had not paid attention when I read it the first time."

• preview

• discuss

• skim

• reread

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RF.5.4C

CCSS.RF.5.3A

CCSS.RI.7.10

When you skim a passage or text, what information should you gather?

• A basic idea of what the passage/text is about.

• Details about the life of the author.

• Information about where, when, and how the book was published.

• The names of all the characters in the passage.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RF.5.4A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

CCSS.RL.7.10

What is the purpose for using active reading strategies?

• to complete your homework

• because teachers like when you take your time

• to have deeper and more effective understanding of your reading

• to keep you busy during class time

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RF.5.3A

CCSS.RF.5.4A

CCSS.RF.5.4B

Who benefits from using active reading strategies?

• struggling readers & people who don't usually like to read

• middle school aged readers

• adult readers who enjoy reading

• all of the above

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RF.5.4C

CCSS.RF.5.4A

Why do we use Active Reading Strategies?

• It is the mental processes that we use when we sleep

• It requires us to write critically by focusing on the material to understand it

• It helps readers recognize when they don't understand parts of a song and take necessary steps to restore meaning.

• It allow us to actively engage with the material by being aware of our own thought process when we are listening

• We gain greater critical thinking skills that makes things easier to understand and enables us to retain information

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RF.5.3A

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RF.5.4A

To find a word that’s new & predict the meaning of the word using clues from the words around it

• questioning

• visualizing

• contextual clues

• process of elimination

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RF.5.3A

CCSS.RF.5.4A

CCSS.RF.5.4B

To create a picture in your mind based on facts and details from the text

• predict

• infer

• main idea

• visualize

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RF.5.4B

CCSS.RF.5.4A

CCSS.RL.7.10

To use facts from text, your own knowledge and experience to understand the text

• inference

• visualize

• emphatise

• predict

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RF.5.4C

Readers engage with the text by asking questions about the text and the author's intentions, and then seek information to clarify and extend their thinking before, during and after reading.

• questioning

• main idea

• infer

• linking

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RF.5.3A

CCSS.RF.5.4B