Predicting
What is predicting?
This technique is when readers making predictions about what will happen next in a text based on the information they have.
What is summarizing?
Finding the main, important ideas of a text and rewriting them in your own words.
What is visualizing?
Creating a mental image of a text in our minds based on what we have read.
True or False: There are 3 types of connections we can make when looking at texts.
True
True or False: asking questions can help us with predicting.
True
True or False: Summarizing requires you to copy the main ideas exactly.
False: we should put our summaries in our own words.
What can we use to help us visualize when reading?
The 5 senses.
The different types of connections that we can make are:
Text-to-self, text-to-text, text-to-world
True or False: we can use what we already know to make predictions.
True, we can use prior knowledge.
What are some strategies that we can use to help us summarize?
Key words, 5 Ws of our text->WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY, + HOW, Somebody Wanted But So Then
What are the 5 senses?
Is this a deep or surface connection? ->I connected to the character’s frustration when they weren’t understood by adults, because I’ve felt ignored when my opinions weren’t taken seriously.
Deep
What are some parts of a text that can help us predict what is going to happen?
Title, cover art, back description, context clues, what we have already read, etc.
True or False: Some summaries are better than others.
True.
When we visualize something, do we always come up with the same image in our heads?
No.
Is this a deep pr surface connection? ->The character and I are the same height
Surface