5th grade

Reading happens all the time in our classroom.   The more you read, the more your imagination expands.  Your vocabulary expands as well.  

 

Good readers do many things as they read.  We'll delve deeper into these strategies throughout the year; that means you'll learn more about each strategy.  You'll apply these strategies as you read also.  

 

1.  We use existing knowledge to make sense of new information. 

This means we relate the situation in the text to our own life experiences.

 

2.  We ask questions about the text before, during, and after reading.

 

3.  We draw inference from the text. 

That means we read between the lines to come up with our understanding of the meaning.

 

4.  We monitor our comprehension. 

This means if we don’t understand what we've read, we stop and reread.  If our minds begin to wander, we'll also reread.

 

5.  We use “fix-up” strategies when meaning breaks down. 

This also means rereading.  It also implies looking up words, asking good questions, reading aloud if necessary, and not giving up!

 

6.  We determine what is important. 

This means finding the “main point.”

 

7.  We put together information to create new thinking. 

 

8.  We use sensory details to visualize what is happening. 

Imagining what the setting, characters or symbols look like is visualizing.  Playing along with the author and “hearing” the sounds he or she creates with words and running a “movie” in your head as you read is also visualizing.