Strategic Actions
Reading Belief Systems
Elements of Reading
Study Strategies
Literature and Texts
100
This strategic action is used to help readers determine unknown words.
What is word solving or solving words?
100
This reading belief believes in extensive repetition and practice of phonics.
What is bottom up perspective?
100
This is the foundation of reading and writing.
What is oral language?
100
This strategy is used when the reader selects meaningful quotes and reflects upon them.
What are double entry journals?
100
This text was read aloud in class. It was about a young, quiet boy.
What is Crow Boy?
200
This strategic action helps readers expand their thinking by considering what will happen in the text.
What is predicting?
200
This reading perspective believes that reading a text accurately is just as important as understanding the meaning.
What is the interactive reading belief?
200
This awareness falls under phonological awareness because of the specific focus on phonemes
What is phonemic awareness?
200
The first study strategy that we did in this class included questions to start with.
What are guiding questions?
200
This story was a Cuban folktale.
What is Martina the Beautiful Cockroach?
300
Some readers use this strategic action when they change their reading rate for various texts.
What is adjusting reading?
300
This reading belief has readers focus on the meaning of the text, rather than being 100% accurate with the text.
What is the top down belief?
300
This is developed through reading, and being read to. It is also developed through conversations.
What is vocabulary?
300
This study strategy includes a cue column, a note taking column, and a summary row.
What is the Cornell Method?
300
The story was told with the use of a form of payment.
What is Ordeal by Cheque?
400
Readers use this strategic action when they are judging a text to determine if it is possible.
What is critiquing?
400
People that agree with this belief also encourage readers to learn strategic actions to help with their comprehension.
What is interactive reading belief?
400
Readers who read with this use expression and intonation.
What is fluency?
400
The double entry journal is different than the other two study strategies because of this one element.
What is it has students personally reflect/give a response to quotes?
400
This song was about a young girl who played the violin.
Who is Rachel Delevoryas?
500
Readers use this strategic action to show their understanding of a whole text in a brief statement.
What is summarizing?
500
People of this reading perspective agree with use of nonsense words.
What is bottom up belief?
500
There are four components to reading comprehension: the reader, the text, situational context, and this.
What is the task?
500
Teachers expect for students to use this study strategy before they begin reading the text.
What is Cornell Notes? What are generating questions?
500
In Chapter 1, this book was featured as an example.
What is Thank you, Mr. Faulkner by Patricia Polacco.