| THE READING CUEING SYSTEM
COMPREHENSION COMES FROM:
Meaning (Does it make sense?)
Structure (Does it sound right?)
Visual (Does it look right?)
Self-Monitoring (the reader's ability to check their own reading behaviors)
Self-Correcting (the reader's ability to correct a miscue in their reading)
The Helping Hand:
1. Stop at the unknown word.
2. Think about the story.
3. Check the picture or visualize the story.
4. Re-read the word or sentence.
5. Does it make sense?
6. Substitute a word that makes sense.
KEEP READING!
Just for fun!
>I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht
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>I was rdgnieg
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>THE PAOMNNEHAL PWEOR OF THE HMUAN MNID
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>Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it
>deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod
>are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and
>lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a
>taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.
>Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey
>lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
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>Amzanig huh?
Why Can't I Skip
My Twenty Minutes of Reading Tonight?
(shared on 4Blocks mailring by Emmy Ellis; source unknown)
Let's figure it out -- mathematically!
Student A reads 20 minutes five nights of every week;
Student B reads only 4 minutes a night...or not at all!
Step 1: Multiply minutes a night x 5 times each week.
Student A reads 20 min. x 5 times a week = 100 mins./week
Student B reads 4 minutes x 5 times a week = 20 minutes
Step 2: Multiply minutes a week x 4 weeks each month.
Student A reads 400 minutes a month.
Student B reads 80 minutes a month.
Step 3: Multiply minutes a month x 9 months/school year
Student A reads 3600 min. in a school year.
Student B reads 720 min. in a school year.
Student A practices reading the equivalent of ten whole school days a year.
Student B gets the equivalent of only two school days of reading practice.
By the end of 6th grade if Student A and Student B maintain
these same reading habits, Student A will have read the equivalent of 60
whole school days Student B will have read the equivalent of only 12 school
days.
One would expect the gap of information retained will have widened
considerably and so, undoubtedly, will school performance. How do you think
Student B will feel about him/herself as a student?
Some questions to ponder:
Which student would you expect to read better?
Which student would you expect to know more?
Which student would you expect to write better?
Which student would you expect to have a better vocabulary?
Which student would you expect to be more successful ! in school....and in
life?
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