This document discusses various reading strategies that students can use to become better readers. It lists strategies such as establishing a purpose for reading, re-reading, making predictions, asking questions, and reading aloud. Students are then instructed to apply one specific reading strategy, such as prediction or reading aloud, as they read two short texts. They are to complete a graphic organizer where they predict what an essay about a certain topic may discuss and note strategies they used.

1. Reading
strategies

2. Bellringer
• “List the characteristics of a
good reader. Explain how a
person ‘becomes’ a good
reader.”
• List on the back of the paper I gave you

3. Share out:what are some of the
things you said?

4. Some reading strategies...
• Establish a purpose for reading
• Re-read
• Make personal connections to the reading
• Read on in order to better understand
• Look at punctuation
• Second guess
• Verify previous understanding
• Make predictions

5. Some reading strategies...
• Ask questions
• Talk to someone about what is being read
• Respond to reading through writing
• Replace unfamiliar words with another word that makes
sense in the context of the sentence
• “Persistence, patience, and practice!”
• Read Aloud
• BEFORE READING, read over any questions, tasks, or
vocabulary you are expected to complete after reading!

6. This is going to require you to
consider which strategies you
use when reading.
use when reading.

7. • Youwill apply a specific reading
strategy (prediction/read aloud)
today as you read “Darkness at
Noon” or “Comparison”

8. • Respond to the following on the graphic
organizer:
• Ifyou were to read a persuasive essay titled
“___________________,” what might it be
about?
• Ifyour prediction turns out to be what the
essay is about, anticipate what ideas, words,
phrases, and facts or opinions the writer should
include.

9. Moodle: Read aloud
• Complete the graphic organizer as you listen to the essay.
• Look back to “Strategies Strong Readers Use.”
• At the bottom of the graphic organizer, record at least three
strategies you used while listening to the essay.
• Select one strategy you used today in class to elaborate on at
the bottom. For example, someone who made a personal
connection may draft an anecdote or someone who struggled
with vocabulary may reflect on how s/he handled the
problem.
• Turn in the graphic organizer to me and answer the questions
on moodle.

10. Moodle: Read aloud
• Complete the graphic organizer as you listen to the essay.
• Look back to “Strategies Strong Readers Use.”
• At the bottom of the graphic organizer, record at least three
strategies you used while listening to the essay.
• Select one strategy you used today in class to elaborate on at
the bottom. For example, someone who made a personal
connection may draft an anecdote or someone who struggled
with vocabulary may reflect on how s/he handled the
problem.
• Turn in the graphic organizer to me and answer the questions
on moodle.