Good readers set a purpose for reading, use prior knowledge to make connections, and ask questions before, during and after reading. They focus on important ideas, visualize information and make sensory connections. Good readers also make inferences, use strategies to understand difficult texts, recognize when their comprehension breaks down, study vocabulary and define unfamiliar words. Finally, good readers retell and summarize what they've read.

1. What Do Good Readers Do? By Ms. Shaw Brandenburg Intermediate

2. Objectives Students will become familiar with the characteristics exhibited by good readers.

3. Reading Survey

4. # 1. GOOD READERS Set a purpose for reading.

5. Good readers set a purpose for reading. Why are you reading this text? Are you reading for enjoyment to retell to answer questions to gain information

6. Once you have a purpose you can decide on a method of reading to use. carefully reading and rereading: reading to confirm meanings and understandings and to clarify details skimming: reading to gain an overall understanding of the content of the text scanning: reading to locate specific information

7. GOOD READERS Set a _______ for reading. purpose

8. #2. GOOD READERS... Use prior knowledge to make connections.

9. There are 3 Types of Connecitons Text to Self Text to Text Text to the World

10. Prior Knowledge Text to Self Connections (TS) – “This story reminds me of me, my family, my friends, the time.”

11. Prior Knowledge Text to Text Connections (TT) – “This story reminds me of the book, the story, the TV show.”

12. Prior Knowledge Text to the World Connections (TW) – “This story reminds me an event that is going on in the world now or has happened in the past.

13. GOOD READERS... Use _______ _________ to make connections. prior knowledge

14. #3. GOOD READERS... Ask questions as they read.

15. GOOD READERS... Ask _________ before, during, & after they read. questions

16. Good readers ask questions. These questions could be wondering questions or clarifying questions , used to clear up something that doesn’t make sense. I wonder why…? What if….? Why did…? Questioning helps a reader focus in on what's important in the text.

17. #4. GOOD READERS... Focus on the most important ideas.

18. GOOD READERS... Focus on the most _________ ideas. important

19. #5. GOOD READERS... Visualize and make auditory and other sensory connections.

20. As you read, you should be painting mental pictures in your head.

21. GOOD READERS... ________ and make auditory and other ________ connections. Visualize sensory

22. #6. GOOD READERS... Make inferences, including predictions and conclusions.

23. Who is speaking? "Give me all your treasure, or I'll make you walk the plank! You can't fool me. Even without your crown, I know that you are the king's son. Shiver me timbers, we'll hold you for ransom!"

24. Who has been captured? "Give me all your treasure, or I'll make you walk the plank! You can't fool me. Even without your crown, I know that you are the king's son. Shiver me timbers, we'll hold you for ransom!"

25. GOOD READERS... Make _________, including predictions and conclusions. inferences

26. #7. GOOD READERS... Use strategies to “fix” it when they don't comprehend at first.

27. FIX-UP Strategies Skip ahead. Reread. Use the context clues. Use the syntax (i.e. sentence structure). Sound it out.

28. GOOD READERS... Use strategies to ______ _____ when they don't comprehend at first. “ fix” it

29. #8. GOOD READERS... Know when they have “Zoned Out” during a text reading.

30. GOOD READERS... Know when they have “________ ______” during a text reading. zoned out

31. #9. GOOD READERS… Study vocabulary and define unfamiliar words they encounter.

32. GOOD READERS… Study _________ and define _________ words they encounter. vocabulary unfamiliar

33. # 10. GOOD READERS... Retell and/or summarize what they've read.

34. GOOD READERS... _______ and/or _________ what they've read. Retell summarize

35. Throughout the year, your teacher will focus on each skill more thoroughly. Each of you will get to practice these skills so that they become a natural part of what you do when reading.

36. Now you know.... What GOOD READERS do!

37. Good Readers Do That [Chorus: 2 x] Un-huh un-huh un-huh Good readers do that Un-huh un-huh un-huh Good readers do that [Verse ] I came to tell you What good readers do Give you the 411 Then it’s all up to you Just ask my last class They can prove to you Good readers have skills You can develop too Before you ever open, up another text. Set a purpose; Use your knowledge, so that you connect, Ask lots of questions; pick out the main idea, I’m almost finished, and then I’ll get out of here Use your senses to bring the text alive Paint a picture in your mind I’m talking visualize Good readers fix those problems That they see And when they zone out They know they must reread Good readers look up unfamiliar words Build strong vocabularies of things you’ve never heard Good readers retell know how to summarize It’s automatic, never static It’s part of their lives Now I know you want to be a good reader like me Now I know you want to be a good reader like me [Chorus: 2 x] Un-huh un-huh un-huh Good readers do that Un-huh un-huh un-huh Good readers do that