These are the three types of connections you can make when reading.
What are text-to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world?
100
You find out WHAT you will be reading about during this step.
What is Previewing?
100
This is what you DO when Reading with a Purpose?
What is: Keep your purpose question in mind during reading, and try to find the answer.
100
This step means that you should stop and think about what you have read. You might ask yourself: Did I understand? Did I reach my purpose?
What is "Pause and Reflect"?
100
This is the type of reading you do when previewing.
What is skimming and scanning?
200
You look at these when previewing a textbook.
What are text features
Such as: titles, headings, bold words, captions, pictures, charts and graphs.
200
You find out HOW you will be reading about during this step.
What is Making a Plan?
200
When you use your background knowledge to help you understand new information in a text.
What is Making Connections?
200
After Pause and Reflect, you should do THIS if you are confused or are unable to answer your purpose question.
What is "Re-read"?
200
This is a strategy you can use through out the Reading Process. You use background knowledge and/or evidence from the text, in order to understand something that the author does not state directly in the take. You need to use your thinking skills to figure it out.
What is making inferences?
300
A purpose question you might ask when reading a textbook chapter with the title "Identifying Minerals"
What is "How can I identify minerals?"
300
You find out WHY you will be reading about during this step.
What is Setting a Purpose?
300
When you connect your own personal experiences to a text you are reading, in order to increase your comprehension.
What is a Text-to-Self connection?
300
If you re-read and you are still confused, you can do one or more of these things:
What is ask the teacher, discuss the text with a friend, or find another text on the same topic?
300
This is the thought process found in a Tree Map.
What is Main Idea and Details, categorizing
400
You ask a question that you want to find the answer to during reading.
What is Setting a Purpose?
400
When you connect background knowledge that you gained from reading one text to information you are reading in another text.
What is a Text-to-Text connection?
400
You can do these things to remember what you read.
What are:
Summarize, discuss, Thinking Maps- or another type of notes
400
Thinking about your thinking
What is Metacognition?
500
A purpose question you might ask when reading a novel with the theme "Coming of Age" where the main character faces many challenges.
What is "How has this character grown and changed over because of their experiences?"
500
Choosing a strategy that will help you comprehend what you read.
What is Making a Plan?
500
When you connect your background knowledge of the world around you to what you have read in a text, in order to increase your comprehension.
What is a Text-to-World connection?
500
Doing this after reading can help you check your understanding. If you can write down the most important information in the text and explain it (the main idea and details) in your own words, then you likely understand what you have read.
What is Summarize?
500
This Thinking Map shows cause and effect relationships.