Thursday, Septt. 12 During reading strategies

Strategies Learners Can Use as they Comprehend and Respond to a Visual, Multimedia, Oral or Print Text

1.Connect and Construct Meaning · This reminds me of …. · I experienced this once when …. · I can relate to this because ….

2.Note Key Ideas and What Supports Them · The important ideas in what I viewed, listened to, or read are …. · Here’s why (supporting ideas) …. · I think the author/presenter is really trying to make us think ….

3.Construct Mental Images · I can picture …. · In my mind I see, hear, smell, taste, feel …. · If this were a movie ….

4.Make, Confirm, and Adjust Predictions · I think …. · I suppose …. · If …, then ….

5.Make, Confirm, Adjust Inferences and Draw Conclusions · Based on the clues in this text, I think the author/character felt/thought …. · I see why …. · My thinking changed when I viewed, listened to, read ….

6.Ask Questions and Self-monitor Comprehension · Does this make sense? · I need to re-view, listen again, or re-read this part because …. · I know that I am on the right track because ….

7. Cues a. Pragmatic Cues (audience, purpose, situation) The purpose of this text is to …. This text represents … point of view. The author’s/presenter’s view of the world is ….   b.Textual Cues (genre and form) The author/presenter chose to use … genre/form. The author/presenter organized the ideas in a list, sequence, compare/contrast, cause/effect, problem/solution, concept/definition, goal/action/outcome format …. The author/presenter probably chose this genre/form because ….     c. Syntactic Cues (sentence) The key idea of this sentence is …. The author/presenter used this word order to convey this particular meaning or emphasis of …. This pronoun refers to ….    d.Semantic/Lexical Cues (word) An important or key word in this passage is …. Because of its context clues, … probably means …. Because of its prefix, suffix, root, … probably means ….   e. Graphophonic Cues (sound-symbol) … is pronounced …. … is spelled ….    f. Other Cues The author/presenter used these features (e.g., graphs, charts) to help us understand this text ….

8.Adjust Rate and/or Strategy I need to skim this part to learn …. I need to scan this part to find …. I need to read this part carefully to learn ….