-Choose books that can be read with accuracy, fluency, and comprehension

-sustain reading for extended periods of time

-visualize reading

-react to reading

-self-monitor

-think while reading

-activate prior knowledge

-focus and refocus when distracted

-read for enjoyment

-plan for reading

Skills:

-compare and contrast theme

-use information from text and readers background

-use knowledge from other stories and life

-message or lesson

-putting together information

-limited understanding of letters, little phonics

-able to read familiar words

-read using clues from environment

Determining Importance - marking spots in the story that are the most important

Organizing & Categorizing Notes - find similarities in notes and connections

Elaborating - start with ideas from text and think further about the ideas

Annotating - marking spots in a text with original thoughts

-interpreting details using prior knowledge and experience

-empathizing

-self-monitoring

-determining importance

-asking and answering relevant questions

-visualizing

-synthesizing

-analyzing relationships (compare and contrast; cause and effect)

-inferring

-Inferring by using prior knowledge with details in the text to understand meaning

-Phrasing by pausing after meaningful phrases

-Self monitoring by correcting ones self

-Emphasis by stressing appropriate words as you read them

-Pacing by reading at a speed that matches the natural rate of speech

Inferring: determining the main idea

Determining Importance: identifying implicit or explicit main ideas to make a statement about a topic

Questioning: have students respond to prompts or questions about the text

Analyzing: identify text structures to compare and contrast main ideas

Preparing for conversation

Keeping conversation going by deepening ideas

Active listening by asking questions

Staying on topic

Being accountable

Elaborating by explaining your thinking

Debating

Thinking flexibility

Use text features that relate to the topic or main idea.

Be able to identify how the author compares and contrasts details.

Search for info beyond the text to gain knowledge in the topic.

Recognize how the details fit together across the text.

Read with focus on seeking answers.

Sort through multiple pages to fine what is important.

-Letter sound knowledge (knowing what the letters look like and their corresponding sounds)

-Self monitoring (making sense of what was read)

-Determining importance (pay attention to details)

-Genre Awareness (understanding different types of books and how to read them)

-Synthesizing (making connections from page to page)

-Talking about books (using “book language” to talk about the text)

-Inferring (using clues or details to come up with ideas about the text)

-links information from the text to background knowledge

-organizes information in their minds

-actively selects which information in the text is most important to focus on

-determines why the setting matters and the way in impacts the characters and events

-predicts, remembers, and recalls events

-comprehends narratives they read

-asks and answers questions to become aware of the plot and the setting

-explicitly learns about story structure

-Visualizing: create mental images

-Determine importance: identify key details from features

-Self-Monitoring: use strategies to fix confusion

-Planning: prepare to read a page with features

-Synthesizing: matching information from features

-Summarizing: speaking or writing

-Building knowledge: reading relevant information

Self Monitoring > Being Aware

Activating Prior Knowledge > Background Knowledge

Determining Importance > Information

Visualizing > Mental Picture

Analyzing > Higher. Meaning

Inferring > Probable Meaning

Synthesizing > Putting Words Together