Our class will be focusing on the following strategies the first nine weeks!
Clarifying/Fixup Strategies While Reading
**Be sure students read every word exactly as it is written.
**Remind students to stop for punctuation and pause appropriately at sentence endings.
Making Connections - "That reminds me of....."
**Text to Text - Comparing one written piece to another written piece
**Text to Self - Comparing a written piece to yourself
**Text to World - Comparing/connecting a written piece to real life
Visualizing - "Close your eyes and picture...."
**Making pictures in your mind when there are none!
Making Predictions - "EDUCATED guesses"
**Using picture clues and titles to predict story elements
**Predicting in the beginning, middle, and even at the end as to what might happen next!
**Connecting predictions to hypothesis in science!
Our class will be focusing on the following strategies the second nine weeks!
Making Predictions - "EDUCATED guesses"
**Using picture clues and titles to predict story elements
**Predicting in the beginning, middle, and even at the end as to what might happen next!
**Connecting predictions to hypothesis in science!
Questions/Wonders
**Asking questions before reading, during reading, and after reading
**Wondering about the characters, problem, solution, and authors purpose