Reading Strategies

My focus this week is to use the beginning of Brave New World to teach reading strategies. Reading strategies are things good readers do to help themselves understand the text better. They make reading more work, but much more rewarding. Some strategies include:

-asking questions
-making predictions
-making inferences
-visualizing the text
-knowing when you don't know
-making connections
-reading with a purpose

We have covered Asking Questions and Visualizing the Text. The rest are coming up. Your reading logs are designed to give you practice in applying the reading strategies. Your job as a reader is to know when you don't understand, and see what you can do to begin understanding. Reading is one of the most complex tasks that we ask our brains to do - it goes far beyond sounding out the words. Becoming a better reader will support you in all your classes, and well beyond the classroom.

Homework: Please read Chapter 2 and do your 8 questions. You will use your questions to launch discussions in your small groups tomorrow.