Reading+Strategies

What good readers do

Good Readers use different reading strategies to help them think about and understand what they are reading. You will learn about metacognition. Metacognition is awareness and understanding of one's own thought processes. Another way to think about it is listening to the voice in your mind that speaks while you read. What Good Readers Do Link Reading strategies we will start learning to use are: 1. Making connections What are text connections? A text connection indicates the reasons why you selected a passage and it reveals the depth of your critical thinking. There are three types of text connections:
 * Text to Self - This is a connection you can make between the selected passage and your own personal experiences.
 * Test to Text - This is a connection you can make between the selected passage and another book, short story or film. It can also indicate a connection you can make between this passage and another part of the same book
 * Text to world - This is a connection you can make between the selected passage and the world outside of your own experience or a book. For example, text to world connections reference significant moments in sports or history. They can also reference places in our world or current events.

2. Visualization
 * Forming mental pictures in your head as you read.

3. Identifying Important Information 4. Questioning ???? 5. Monitor for Understanding 6. Summarizing
 * Expository text- main idea
 * Narrative text-story map
 * Helps set a purpose for reading, integrate information, and think  as reading
 * Do things like reread, look at diagrams and illustrations, or think about how to figure out an unknown word.
 * this is like retelling in your own words