A reader thinks about what they are reading while they read.
They are reading to learn. Here are some strategies to help you when your child is reading at home.
They are reading to learn. Here are some strategies to help you when your child is reading at home.
Making Connections...
Children make personal connections to the text using their schema. Schema is their background knowledge. There are three main types of connections we make while reading texts.
Text to Self (T-S): refers to connections made between the text and the reader's personal experiences.
Text to Text (T-T): refers to connections made between a text being read and to a text that was previously read
Text to World (T-W): refers to connections made between a text being read and something that occurs in the world.
Connections should be meaningful. For instance reading a story about a dog and saying "I have a dog" is a superficial connection. Students should be able to say "I know how excited I was when I first got my puppy. It was the best day. I know how the character feels and how excited they must be because they are getting their dog"
Questioning...
Questioning helps students clarify and deepen understanding of the text they are reading.
Some examples of questions are:
I wonder...
What happened to...
Where did they...
Why...
Visualize...
Visualizing helps readers engage with text that make it personal and memorable. Readers adapt their images as they read.
Inferring...
Means reading "between the lines".
Forming a best guess using EVIDENCE (context clues, pictures clues, schema, etc.)
Determining Importance...
Knowing the purpose for reading helps determine what is important.
Readers need to be able to distinguish between:
Fiction and Non-fiction
What is important information and what is not
Synthesizing...
Thinking evolves through a process. A reader's thinking should change as they gather more information. New information makes the reader re-evaluate their schema to form new schema.
Children make personal connections to the text using their schema. Schema is their background knowledge. There are three main types of connections we make while reading texts.
Text to Self (T-S): refers to connections made between the text and the reader's personal experiences.
Text to Text (T-T): refers to connections made between a text being read and to a text that was previously read
Text to World (T-W): refers to connections made between a text being read and something that occurs in the world.
Connections should be meaningful. For instance reading a story about a dog and saying "I have a dog" is a superficial connection. Students should be able to say "I know how excited I was when I first got my puppy. It was the best day. I know how the character feels and how excited they must be because they are getting their dog"
Questioning...
Questioning helps students clarify and deepen understanding of the text they are reading.
Some examples of questions are:
I wonder...
What happened to...
Where did they...
Why...
Visualize...
Visualizing helps readers engage with text that make it personal and memorable. Readers adapt their images as they read.
Inferring...
Means reading "between the lines".
Forming a best guess using EVIDENCE (context clues, pictures clues, schema, etc.)
Determining Importance...
Knowing the purpose for reading helps determine what is important.
Readers need to be able to distinguish between:
Fiction and Non-fiction
What is important information and what is not
Synthesizing...
Thinking evolves through a process. A reader's thinking should change as they gather more information. New information makes the reader re-evaluate their schema to form new schema.