IRA / NCTE
Standards
3. Students
apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and
appreciate texts. They draw on their prior experience, their interactions
with other readers and writers, their knowledge of word meaning and of other
texts, their word identification strategies, and their understanding of textual
features (e.g., sound-letter correspondence, sentence structure, context,
graphics).
Predict -
Connect -Visualize -
Clarify - Question
- Infer - Summarize
The Long Day
Question
Predict
- Use the information in the story to tell what you
think will happen next.
- Based on .... I predict...
- I already know...
- I think the next part will be about ...
- Based on what ____ said / did, I think __________
will happen
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Campus School:
Historical Fiction
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Connect
- Look for a connection to something you already
know about; in you life, in another book, or in the world around you
- text - to - self
- text - to - text
- text - to - world
Visualize
- Make a picture in your mind to go with what you
read
- When I read this, I imagine that...
- As I read, in my mind I see...
- Draw a diagram
- Make a timeline
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Clarify
- When you get to the end of a page or a paragraph,
check to see if you understand
- Use sticky notes
- Use the dictionary and/or glossary
- Ask a friend
- Ask the teacher
Infer
- Use the clues in the story to decide what someone is
like, or what must have happened. These are things the author doesn't
tell you, but just hints about.
- Use the clues
- Since .... happened in the story, then .....
- I think ... because ...
- Read between the lines
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Summarize
- Tell the important information and leave out the
details
- This story is mostly about....
- The main idea is....
- The author is saying...
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