Thinking WITHIN the Text
Remembering important information and carrying it forward.
What is "SUMMARIZING"?
Anticipating what may happen next.
What is "PREDICTING"?
Thinking critically about the text.
What is "CRITIQUING"?
Using a range of strategies to recognize and take apart words, and understand word meaning.
What is "SOLVING WORDS"?
The child stops reading, unable to proceed.
What is "MONITORING"?
Adjusting present understandings to accommodate new knowledge.
What is "SYNTHESIZING"?
Noticing aspects of the writer's craft including text structure.
Taking action in flexible ways to solve problems or fit purpose and genre.
What is "ADJUSTING"?
The word is "tomorrow. The child reads, "to--, tom--, tomow--"...
What is "SEARCHING"?
Thinking about what the writer means but has not stated.
What is "INFERRING"?
The child says, "I think this is realistic fiction because it could really happen, but it didn't happen to the writer."
What is "ANALYZING"?
Checking on accuracy and understanding as well as working to self-correct errors.
What is "MONITORING" and "SELF CORRECTING"?
A child changes pace or approach for different texts.
What is adjusting
Connecting the text to personal and world knowledge as well as to other texts.
What is "MAKING CONNECTIONS"?
What is critiquing
Reading at a good rate, integrating phrasing, pausing, intonation, and stress.
What is "MAINTAINING FLUENCY"?
The word is "today". The child reads, "Tommy.... oh, I mean 'today'".
What is "SELF-CORRECTING"?
The child says, "This is just like what happens in Peter Pan!"
What is "MAKING CONNECTIONS"?
You can think about how the author organized the information
What is analyzing
Noticing and using sources of information (meaning, language structure, phonological information, visual information).
What is "SEARCHING FOR & USING INFORMATION"?