Reading 

   

READING    WORK

A/R Requirements

 15 points each quarter - for books read that are not in the A/R system, students can earn points by writing an A/R test (must be submitted, approved, and then taken by the student in order to receive the points) for that book 
Non-Fiction  -  sentence and paragraph comprehension                     -  story comprehension                                                        -  Time For Kids                                                                   -  reading for meaning in science
Fiction -  A/R                                                                                      - silent reading

Monday

■  look in the assignment planner for specific assignments

Tuesday

■  look in the assignment planner for specific assignments

Wednesday

■  look in the assignment planner for specific assignments

Thursday

■  look in the assignment planner for specific assignments

Friday

■  look in the assignment planner for specific assignments

 

                             READING and THINKING STRATEGIES                              

METACOGNITION – thinking about your thinking        

SCHEMA  - personal background knowledge for the text:

                            ■  text–to–self connections

                            ■  text–to–text connections

                            ■  text–to–world connections

EVOKING  SENSORY  IMAGES – using the 5 senses to create pictures in the mind (visualization)

QUESTIONING – asking questions before, during and after reading the text 

DETERMINING  IMPORTANCE – finding the purpose for reading; the difference between what is important and what is interesting

INFERRING – reading between the lines

SYNTHESIZING – gathering meaning from the text

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