Before reading, students…

After reading, students…

• Set a purpose
• Activate prior knowledge (schema)
• Preview text
• Identify text structure clues (e.g., chronological, cause/effect, compare/contrast, etc.)
• Locate text features (e.g., transitional words, subheadings, bold print, etc.)
• Use Cues: graphics and pictures
• Skim/Scan
• Predict and make text-based references
• Sample a page of text for readability and interest

• Self-monitor using:
  • Meaning
  • Language structure
  • Print cues
• Reread
• Self-correct
• Clarify
• Determine Importance
• Generate literal, clarifying, and inferential questions
• Visualize
• Construct sensory images
• Summarize and paraphrase
• Check predictions
• Interpret
  • Literal meaning
  • Inferential meaning
• Make Connections, using
  • Graphics
  • Pictures
• Monitor fluency (oral/silent; or text complexity)
  • Adjust rate
  • Use punctuation and dialogue cues
  • Use phrasing, intonation, expression
• Read for accuracy
• Use note-taking strategies

• Reread for confirmation
• Summarize and paraphrase key ideas
• Evaluate
• Accuracy of information
• Literary merit and use of author’s craft
• Clarify
• Analyze information within and across texts
• Support conclusions with references from text
• Synthesize
• Connect ideas/themes in text to…
• Text: Compare one text to another text
• Self: Relate and explain ideas or events in text to personal experience
• World: Recognize commonalities of text to world