Reading+Strategies

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GIST Statement Bobby

Improving Your Comprehension Bryn

Knowing Smart Words Greg North


 * Knowing the words, so you can have thoughts for a dissucion.**

Realistic good pace from scene to scene suspectful well-devloped ideas Unrealistic plodding predictable sketchy ideas Orinal well-rounded dynamic; able to change sterotyped flat static; unable to change subtle unique powerful
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 * Words and pharses to describe characters**
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 * Words describe theme**
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Question the Text ** keane bokol ** 1. Read the story 2. Go over the question in class when done 3. If you can’t find the question then ask for help 4. Read the question first then over the text 5. Just go over the questions and study them 6. The more questions you go over the more prepared you’ll be at the end Asking question to better to understand the point the plot and the character.

Re-Reading & Rewording -M.Dewey · You should always re-read what you have read in class, a history book, English book ect.  ﻿ ﻿ It helps you to understand better what the passage, or book was better then you have read it the first time.

· When you are re-reading something it is easier to understand what you have read. It possess through your head better and sometimes even gives you a better outlook on something you thought was the right outlook.

· If you don’t understand something then you should 1. Re-read it 2. Write the sentence you don’t quite get 3. Leave extra lines below 4. Then take the difficult words you can’t seem to get, and underline them 5. Ask a teacher, or someone or look it up in the dictionary 6. Then right it on the line, and see if you understand it now.

Summarizing Narrative Text, SWBS **JOELENE** SWBS means Somebody, Wanted, But, So. Summerizes chunks of what your reading. To think about the character What they do, What conflicts they face, and what the resolution is. you focus yourself to rethink in different points of view. Steps to writing an SWBS

Keane Bokol
 * Write the words Somebody, wanted, but and so across the top of 4 colums.
 * Under the "somebody" colum, write the characters name.
 * Under the "wanted" colum, write what the character wanted to do.
 * Under the "but" colum, explain what happened that kept the character from doing what they wanted.
 * Finally, under the "so" colum, explain the eventual outcome.
 * If your writing an SWBS for a long story or novel, then write several SWBS statements at different points in the story.

Try think arloud mike jenkins Comprehending what you are reading is hard confusion happens as you are reading to become an active reader you should predict, connect, clarify, question and visualize while you are reading. Make prediction Make connection Clarify in your own thoughts what you are reading Question, what you don’t understand Visualize the text

Metacognition ** ; Alan Bajek **
Metacognition, it’s the ability to help recognize what you are doing and it also helps you to understand some text you are reading. One important part of Metacognition is realizing what you’re doing. If your attention wonders while reading try, 1.) Keeping your paper and pen close, and jot down notes as you read. 2.) Read for a set amount of time then stop and review what you just read.