In reading workshop the students are
learning specific comprehension strategies to help them gain information
from what they are reading. They make connections, ask questions, draw
inferences, visualize, determine importance, and synthesize information.
Here are some students marking connections they are finding in their
reading.
These connections include:
- Text-to-self- connections that readers make
between the text and their past experiences and background
knowledge
- Text-to-text- connections that readers make
between the text they are reading and another text
- Text-to-world- connections that readers make
between the text and the bigger issues, events or concerns of
the world.
Asking Questions:
Readers ask questions before, during and
after reading.
Thick Questions: These questions
are often long and involved. They need further discussion or prompt
research. Examples: Why? How come? I wonder?
Thin Questions: These questions can be answered with a number or with
yes or no.
Visualizing:
This strategy allows readers to create mental images from words in the
text.
Making Inferences:
When readers infer they draw conclusions based on clues in the text.
They make predictions before and during reading and use pictures to help
gain meaning.
Determining Importance:
What a reader determines to be important in text depends on their
purpose for reading.
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Examples for determining importance:
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Remember important information
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Learn new information and build background
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Distinguish what's important from what's interesting
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Answer a specific question
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Determine if the author's message is to inform, persuade, or
entertain
Synthesizing Information:
The reader combines new information with
existing knowledge to form an original idea, a new line of thinking, or
a new creation
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