Connections and Questions
Visualize
Predictions and Infererences
Reading Strategies- Wonder
Wonder Extras
100
What are the 2 types of questions we ask when reading?
thin and thick
100
What do you do when you visualize?
Good readers create mental images when they read.
100
How do you make inferences?
text evidence + schema = inference
100
Give an example of a thin question you have for Wonder.
AMV
100
What does precept mean?
AMV
Rules we live by.
200
What are the 3 types of connections we use when reading?
text to self
text to text
text to world
200
When we visualize we create mental images using sensory details.
What are sensory details?
200
What reading strategy did we practice when we did the activity:
The Great Trash Mystery
Inferences
200
What type of reading strategy is this and why?
"She had long wavy brown hair, and wore a brown T-shirt with a purple peace sign on it."
visualization
details to help us make a mental image/picture
200
What type of figurative language is this excerpt from Wonder? Explain.
"Mom and Dad met at Brown University and have been together ever since. Isabel and Nate: like two peas in a pod."
similie- like
two peas in a pod
AMV
300
Is this an example of a thick or thin question?
I wonder if something else happened to make Via and Miranda not friends anymore, besides Miranda changing how she looks?
thick
300
What are 3 details that helped you visualize what Auggie looks like in this passage:
"His nose is disproportionately big for his face, and kind of fleshy. His head is pinched in on the sides where the ears should be, like someone used giant pliers and crushed the middle part of his face."
AMV- name 3
disproportionately big, fleshy, head is pinched in, crushed the middle part of his face
300
How and why do readers make predictions while reading?
AMV
When readers make predictions they think about what they already know and what they think will logically happen to help them understand what they are reading. Readers look for clues.
300
What reading strategy is this and why?
"I think it's like the Cheese Touch in Diary of a Wimpy Kid. The kids in that story were afraid they'd catch the cooties if they touched the old moldy cheese on the basketball court. At Beecher Prep, I'm the old moldy cheese."
text to text
AMV
300
What type of figurative language is this excerpt from Wonder? Explain why.
"To Daisy, all our faces look alike, as flat and pale as the moon."
similie- "as"
comparing faces to moon
400
What type of connection is this? And how does this help you understand the story better?
"I guess I thought she'd look like Miss Fowl from Jimmy Neutron: an old lady with a big bun on top of her head. But, in fact, she looked exactly like Mon Mothma from Star Wars Episode IV: haircut kind of like a boy's, and a big white shirt kind of like a tunic"
text to text (TV show/movie)
We get a picture of what someone looks like.
400
True or False
Readers change, or revise, their visualizations often while reading.
True
This allows readers to better comprehend
400
When should you make predictions when you are reading?
Readers often make predictions before they start reading, during the story, and after they have finished reading.
400
Give an example of a text to self connection you have for Wonder.
AMV
400
What type of reading strategy is displayed in this excerpt from Wonder?
"I wonder how many nights she's stood outside his door. And I wonder if she's ever stood outside my door like that?"
Thick question
500
What type of connection is this?
We can connect Auggie's feelings of being made fun of because of how he looks to what happens in middle schools today. Students are bullied because of how they look, or what they wear or who they are friends with.
Text to world
500
Give at least 3 details that help you visualize what Auggie looks like.
"His eyes are about an inch below where they should be on his face, almost to halfway down his cheeks. They slant downward at an extreme angle, almost like diagonal slits that someone cut into his face, and the left one is noticeably lower than the right one."
AMV
We get specific details on how Auggie looks to help us make a picture of him in our minds.
500
What is an example of a prediction you can make before you start reading?
AMV
What the book/story will be about?
Who is the main character?
What big events will happen?
500
What can we infer from this passage in Wonder?
"August is the Sun. Me and Mom and Dad are planets orbiting the Sun. The rest of our family and friends are asteroids and comets floating around the planets orbiting the Sun."
AMV
gave text evidence and used background knowledge to make an inference.
500
What type of figurative language is this?
"August is the Sun"
metaphor
comparing August to the sun