Prereading
This provides motivation and direction for reading.
What is setting purposes?
This is a good alternative to independent reading and students are often able to talk out confusions.
What is partner reading?
During this part of responding, students share their personal responses and tell what they liked about the text.
What is grand conversations and other conversations?
Teachers do this when they are teaching procedures, concepts, strategies, and skills.
What is teaching mini- lessons?
Teachers do this to help build students' knowledge about a topic.
What is activating background knowledge?
Students do this quietly, by themselves, and at their own pace.
What is independent reading?
Students refer to word walls and do word sorts during this part of exploring.
What is focusing on words and sentences?
These 3 creative projects can be used to apply what they've learned.
What is open- minded portraits, readers theatre performances, and PowerPoint presentations?
Teachers engage students in this experience during the read- aloud through making predictions, asking questions, etc...
What is teacher read- alouds?
When students do this, they deepen their comprehension of the text.
What is rereading the selection?
Sometimes students examine the table of contents in order to prepare for this part of pre- reading.
What is planning for reading?
Teachers do this to teach phonics, high- frequency words, and other literacy concepts.
What is shared reading?
Students write and draw their thoughts and feelings about what they've read in these.
What is reading logs?
Teachers plan exploring activities to focus attention on genres, txt structures, and literary devices that authors use.
What is examining the writer's craft?