Announcements and Reminders:
Turn in your During Reading Practice homework!!
Pull out your books and begin reading. |
Targets for Today:
I can list and describe the During Reading strategies.
I can use strategies like re-reading, reading ahead, finding unknown words, using other sources, and asking for help when I don't understand what I read. |
Today’s Agenda:
Silent Reading. Fill out your reading logs. Take the During Reading Quiz! On number 1, write "Making Inferences" as the strategy name, and leave it blank for now. We will go over that briefly after we correct the rest of the quiz. Good job for remembering those strategies! Making Inferences is very similar to Making Connections and Making Predictions. In fact, it is just one step further than Making Predictions. When you make inferences, you use clues from the text, memories, facts, experiences, and more to "read between the lines". You're not just looking forward to guess what will happen next, but you're looking at the whole text!
We will use an acronym to help us remember the important parts of making an inference.
Let's make some inferences about this picture. Pick a detail, infer something, and explain why that detail supports your inference.
Making inferences is a life skill, not just a reading skill! You make inferences all the time as you meet new people, decide if a movie is going to be good or not, or try to figure out what happened to that thing that you lost.
Now for some Fix-Up Strategies!! You'll use these when you're not understanding what you're reading.
Pull out your BICUM brochure and copy them down in the outside, middle column.
The first two strategies here are fairly simple. If you're reading something and you don't understand, the first thing you can try is... Trying again! Rereading is something that even very good readers do. Often, reading is a it more carefully, even following along with your finger, will make it more clear to you.
It might not seem like a good idea to keep reading ahead if you don't understand. Let's clarify- we don't want you to just read until the end and survive the hard parts! What IS helpful is reading ahead just a little bit to see if the next section will help you understand what just happened. If it doesn't help, then stop reading. Look at this example from the beginning of Gone With The Wind:
"Having maneuvered them away from the boring subject of war, (Scarlett) went back with interest to their immediate situation. 'What did your mother say about you two being expelled again?'
(Pause!! We had no idea they were expelled! Why? From where?)
The boys looked uncomfortable, recalling their mother's conduct three months ago when they had come home, by request, from the University of Virginia.
'Well' said Stuart, 'she hasn't had a chance to say anything yet. Tom and us left home early this morning before she got up..."
The only thing that came before this was a description of what Scarlett looks like, and a short conversation about the beginning of the Civil War. Rereading wouldn't help you understand why the boys were expelled, or where they were expelled from. You have to keep reading to find out!
Now for our third strategy, Checking Unfamiliar Words. This could mean googling a definition, but there is actually a better way to build your vocabulary. What might that be?
Using the context clues in this sentence, what would you guess that the word "placid" means?
Even though a storm had just passed through, the lake was strangely placid that afternoon.
How about the word "replete"?
The bin of potatoes in the cellar was replete; we would not run out of food all winter!
How about "curtail"?
The principal needed to curtail his speech, because it was almost 2:45 and time for the students to get ready to go home!
Now for another strategy- Checking Other Sources. What if my class was reading The Outsiders, but I really wasn't getting it. What are some other places I could look to help me learn more about that topic?
Or last of all, it is ok to Ask for Help when you're reading!!
One way to remember the Fix-Up Strategies: If you're not sure what's going on when you're reading, it can be like feeling lost when you're driving. Here is what you might do if you were unsure how to get to your destination when driving.
Now you're going to practice using those strategies. Here is a short story that might have some unfamiliar words. It might not be very clear in who it is talking about or what is happening. Let's read the directions together!
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If You Were Absent:
Turn in your During Reading Practice sheet. Take the During Reading Quiz. Copy down the Fix-Up Strategies in your BICUM Brochure |
Vocabulary:
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