What Do Good Readers Do?
Before Reading
Activate prior knowledge
What do I already know about this topic?
Predict/make inferences
I predict this book will be about . . . because . . .
Question
I wonder why . . .
During Reading
Make connections
I know what that feels like because . . .
Visualise
I can make pictures in my mind
Make inferences
I think what the author is trying to tell me is . . .
Revise and adjust predictions
I predicted . . . would happen, but now I think . . .
After Reading
Retell/summarise
The main idea of the story is . . .
Synthesise
My ideas have changed after reading this . . .
Revisit predictions
At the beginning I predicted that . . .
I’d like to find out why . . .
Evaluate the text
I found this book useful for my report because . . .
Good Readers…
Ask what do I already know?
Predict
Ask questions
Summarise
Reread
What do good readers do?
Good readers look at the pictures,
scan through text fixtures,
make guesses and predictions,
Then read for fact or fictions.
reading for meaning,
storyline gleaning
making connections
to what I know,
run a movie in my head,
ask some questions
connect the dots,
put it together
to summarise the plot.