Strategies Review
by Jamie Selinger
May 18, 2008
FictionStrategies Review…
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BEFORE YOU READ |
Preview title, author, pictures, synopsis on back cover, first page or two –- then PREDICT. What will your main characters be like? Where/When will the story take place? What will be the conflict, and how will it work out? |
Based on your predictions, connect to 1) your experiences, 3)things you’ve seen/heard/read, and 4)things you know. Empty your head of everything you know about these types of people, places, situations, and this time period. |
Use your connections to help you establish a picture in your head of the characters (you might choose people you know or actors to play the parts), setting, and events. |
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AS YOU READ |
Monitor your predictions. Either 1) confirm you were right and enhance (add new details), 2) adjust – change your prediction a bit, or 3) discard and make new predictions to monitor. |
Keep connecting to self, friends, things you’ve seen/heard/read, and things you know. Use that to help you make inferences about characters and things that are happening and to continue imaging. |
Turn your images into a movie. Picture your characters a setting doing and saying things. |
Use text clues to figure out what the author is suggesting about the characters (what they’re like and why they’re doing things), the setting (what it looks, sounds, smells, and feels like), what is happening, and what he/she wants us to learn (the theme). |
Stop to ask yourself 1) why the author made certain decisions about characters and events (inference), 2) what a word means (inference), 3) what might be coming up (prediction), and any other questions you have. FIND OR FIGURE OUT THE ANSWERS!!!! |
Constantly recap for yourself what is going on to make sure you’ve processed it correctly. (“Okay, so this girl is really…” “Okay, so they’re heading to…”) Make sure you know the main ideas and important facts about characters, setting, conflict, and resolution. |
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Try to figure out the theme. |
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Recap all the highlights about character, setting, conflict, resolution, and theme. See if you can write them all down in a paragraph. |
NonfictionStrategies Review…
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Infer |
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BEFORE YOU READ |
Preview title, subtitles, author, pictures, captions, bold words, intro/conclusion, etc.–- then PREDICT. What is your main idea (thesis)? What will be the important subtopics? |
Based on your predictions, connect to 1) your experiences, 3)things you’ve seen/heard/read, and 4)things you know. Empty your head of everything you know about this subject. |
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AS YOU READ |
Monitor your predictions. Either 1) confirm you were right and enhance (add new details), 2) adjust – change your prediction a bit, or 3) discard and make new predictions to monitor. Keep predicting throughout the article/chapter. |
Keep connectingto self, friends, things you’ve seen/heard/read, and things you know. Use that to help you understand and stay focused. If you get stuck, try to talk yourself through by creating an analogy to something familiar. |
Picture as much as you can: objects, actions, processes, etc. The more you can picture, the easier it is to stay focused. This can also help you understand and retain information. |
Use text clues to figure out what the author is suggesting. |
Stop to ask yourself 1) what the author is trying to say (inference), 2) what a word means (inference), 3) what a particular paragraph is saying, and any other questions you have. FIND OR FIGURE OUT THE ANSWERS!!!! |
Focus on the intro, topic and concluding sentences, and the conclusion to find the main ideas and subtopics. Summarize every paragraph (write down summaries in the margins if possible). |
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AFTER YOU READ |
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Try to connect this new information to something familiar in order to effectively process and retain it. |
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Try to figure out the author’s purpose. Why did he/she write this? |
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Use theparagraph summaries as well as the intro and conclusion to summarize the entire article/chapter. Make sure you know the main idea. |
