Unit 2: Reading Strategically Session 1 Everything in RED font needs to be copied into your Reader’s Notebook!! Put the date at the top of a new sheet!

Personal Reflection Take a few minutes to reflection on your reading. HOW do you read? What are the things that you do when you read? How do you know you are reading well? What is the point of reading overall? What about fiction novels in English class?

John Green says it best

Inspirational Quote: “To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.” -Edmund Burke

Teaching Point #1: Readers use strategies to monitor and fix their understanding. They 1.notice when the text is not making sense. 2.stop and ask questions. 3.re-read to clarify confusions. 4.predict what will happen next.

A few thoughts on reading… When readers are not comprehending, several things may be happening: – they may be just reading the words on the page – getting distracted and thinking of other things, – not making any sense of and/or not visualizing what they are reading. Good readers are able to clarify when they summarize, re-read, identify important details, and connect the details.

Readers use strategies to monitor and fix their understanding. It is important to stop when things get confusing and clarify what you have read. We will focus on 6 strategies –Making connections – Monitoring –Predicting –Summarizing –Questioning –Visualizing

MAKING CONNECTIONS Good readers connect what they know with what they are reading. –Does this remind me of something? –Has this ever happened to me? –Have I ever felt this way? –Do I know someone like this character? –Does this conflict with something I have read before? –This reminds me of that book/movie/poem/song________ because___________________.

PREDICTING Good readers think about what is going to happen next and make predictions based on what they know and what they have read. –What do I think will happen next? –Since _______ happened, I think __________ will happen. –This title/heading/picture make me think this will be about….. –Although the author hasn’t told me this, I predict _____________.

QUESTIONING Good readers ask themselves questions while they read to stay focused on a text and to help clarify confusions. What is the author saying? Why is this happening? Why did the character…? Is this important? This makes me wonder if/why…. What does this mean?

MONITORING COMPREHENSION Good readers stop to think about their reading and know what to do when they don’t understand. –Is this making sense? –Wait, what’s going on here? –Do I need to reread? –What does this word mean? –What have I learned?

SUMMARIZING Good readers identify the most important ideas and put them into their own words. –This story is mainly about…. –The author’s most important ideas were…. –What are the key words? –How is the story organized?

VISUALIZING Good readers picture what is happening while they read. Sometimes you may even chose to draw a representation of your reading. –What do I hear, smell, see, and feel? –What do the characters, setting, and events of the story look in my mind?

Notebooks: Open up to the next clean page in your notebook. Glue each portion of the story I hand out in order, one piece in the middle of each page, according to the numbers at the top of each piece. Label the first part of the story: “The Man to Send Rain Clouds” byLeslie Mormon Silko Number each new page in the outer corners. The story should take up pages 5-10.

Active Engagement Under the document camera, I will model annotating with a pen. I will read the story, making my thinking evident and marking on a text that you can see. This will be practicing using the strategies we learned about yesterday. This is a good example of what annotating looks like. You will need to know this!!

Active Engagement (cont) I will read only the first part of the story and… 1.Underline details that seem to be important to the story. 2.Bracket the first part of the story where the character’s problem is revealed and label with a summary of what happens in that part 3.Put a star in the margin where I stopped to question, clarify, or predict, and then write the question, the clarification, or prediction. While I’m doing the above actions, please copy down what I’m doing on your story!

Independent Practice Now, on your own, continue reading the story with a pen and marking your copies with the same behaviors. These should be written in your Reader’s Notebook already: –Read the story, making your thinking evident and marking on your text –Bracket any part of the story where the character’s problem is revealed and label with a summary of what happens in that part –Put a star in the margin where you stopped to question, clarify, or predict. Write the question, the clarification, or prediction. I will come around and give you credit for an annotated story in approximately 15 minutes.

Analysis: In your writer’s notebook, answer the following questions: –What is the overall theme of the story? –What do you think about the boy in the story? Do you understand him or not? –Why do you think the woman in the story was so nice on the boy? –Do you think the lesson of the woman was effective? Do you think he will ever do this again? Why or why not?

Reflection: Write a paragraph in your writer’s notebook discussing the following reflection topic. You must write 5-6 sentences to get full credit!