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20. Text-to-Self Connections Chart
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22. Text-to-World Connections Chart
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23. B-D-A Connections Chart
Good readers make connections to the text as they read. Record
the connections you make before, during and after reading.
Consider how these connections deepened your comprehension of
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38. QAR
If we want to fully comprehend what we are reading, we must answer the questions
that come to mind. Sometimes the answers are in the text-they are “right there.” Other
times, we must “think and search” and put together different parts of one or more texts
to find the answer. Some answers will be in your head-you’ll make a connection and
find the answer “on your own.” Sometimes you and the author will have the answer.
This happens when you combine your viewpoints with that of the author.
Use the chart below to record the types of questions you asked and answered about the
text.
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39. Q-A 3-Column Chart
Question Answer Helps me
understand the text
better because…
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40. Question-Answer T-Chart
My Questions Answers From the Text
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41. Questioning Chart
Title_______________________________ Author____________________________
As I read, I’m questioning. My question is ___________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
How I find the answer:
Text Clues and Information My Schema
Using this information, I can infer that _______________________________________
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I know this because _____________________________________________________
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How I find the answer:
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Using this information, I can infer that _______________________________________
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I know this because _____________________________________________________
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42. Types of Questions T Chart
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43. QAS
You ask yourself different kinds of questions as you read. You will need to use different
strategies to answer the questions, depending upon the type of question being asked.
Complete the chart below to show your questions, answers and the strategies you used
to find the answers.
Questions Answers Strategies Used to Answer
Questions
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44. SQ3R
The SQ3R chart will help you use a variety of good reader strategies. You must first
survey the text, noticing and recording any important information. This includes titles,
subtitles, key words and information from pictures or illustrations. Next, you will ask
questions about the topic and record them on the chart. Then, you’ll read. As you read,
write the answers to any questions you’ve asked. When you’re done, recite key ideas
and facts from the text. This will help you remember what you read. Finally, you will
review the text and write a summary of it.
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46. Creating Sensory Images
Sensory images bring reading to life. Strong sensory images draw the reader into the
text, so much so that he becomes part of it. Our visualizations make the reading our
own-it personalizes it, and through these images we forge attachments to characters,
places, and events. Our sensory images can help us remember and recall what we read
with ease.
When we create sensory images as we read, we personalize the text and feel a
connection to it. Visualizations and other sensory images create a sense of ownership
in the reader.
We use sensory images to do the following:
• Visualizations fill in missing information.
• Using schema and text clues we create sensory images (this is a form of
inference, only with images rather than words).
• Visualizing in nonfiction to deepen understanding: visualizing size, shape, space,
or time.
• Visualizing in nonfiction text to develop understanding of people, places, and
activities, as well as to compare the known to the unknown.
• Sensory images also include: smells, sounds, tastes, and touches
The sensory images we create stem from our own personal experiences. We use
sensory images to deepen understanding before, during and after reading.
Visualizations and other sensory images bring out the pleasure of reading. When
visualizing, we create “mind movies” and can see the action, the characters, the setting.
This type of personal involvement draws us in as readers.
The following organizers are designed to help students create visualizations and other
sensory images as they read.
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47. Visualizing Three-Column Chart
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48. In My Mind’s Eye
This visualization helped me understand_____________
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49. “Step Into the Story” Five Senses Chart
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How did “stepping into the story” help you understand what you read?
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50. The Movie in my Mind
Draw what you “see” happening in the book/story. Record your visualizations in order.
Did the “movie in your mind” help you fill in any information missing in the book? How?
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51. Makes Me See…
Text Clue: Makes Me Visualize:
My visualizations help me understand the story because _____________________
______________________________________________________________________
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52. Senses All Around
As you write, complete the chart.
I see… I touch… I hear… I taste… I smell…
Sensing these helps me understand the story because..
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53. “I Sense” Organizer
I see…
I taste… I hear…
Title:
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I smell… I touch…
My sensory images helped me understand the story because…
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54. A Captured Image
Proficient readers create visualizations as they read. This enables them to remember
information, fill in “missing” pieces, create inferences and develop understanding. As
you read, note the most vivid visualization you create. Sketch it in the frame below.
Write about it.
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55. Between the Scenes
Good readers create “mind pictures” or images that go beyond the text and fill in
missing information. In the boxes below, sketch to fill in the missing information from the
text you read today. What do your visualizations help you understand more deeply?
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56. Nonfiction Comparisons-Visualizing to Clarify Information
Nonfictions writers often use comparisons to illustrate information and make it easy for
the reader to understand. Comparing size, shape and purpose allows the reader to
connect the known to the unknown.
As you read, note any comparisons made by the author. Draw a picture to show what
the author was comparing and write how it helped you understand the text.
Explain how this
A __________ is like a ______________. comparison helped you
understand the text.
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