Thursday, September 12, 2013

Thursday, September 12, Before strategies cont

Today, I handed back your personal responses, which we discussed. I then gave you more notes on the "Before" strategies you should use for your independent novel study as well as for reading or viewing in classes. I have pasted these below:


 

1.      Construct mental Images

 

·         I can picture…

·         In my mind, I see, hear, smell, taste, feel…

·         If this were a movie…

 

4.                  Make, Confirm, and Adjust Predictions...

 

·         I think…

·         I suppose…

·         If….then…. (ponder possible outcomes)

 

5.                  Make, Confirm, Adjust Inferences and draw conclusions

* Based on the clues in this text, I think the author/character felt/thought…

* I see why…         

* My thinking changed when I viewed, listened to, read…

 

6.                  Ask Questions and Self-monitor Comprehension

Does this make sense?

I need to re-view, listen again, or re-read this part because…

I know that I am on the right track because…

 

7.                  Look for:

a.                   Pragmatic Cues (audience, purpose, situation.

1.      The purpose of this text is to…

2.      This text represents… point of view.

b.                  Textual Cues (genre and form)

3.      The author/presenter’s view of the world is…

4.      The author/presenter chose to use… genre/form.

5.      The author/presenter organized the ideas in a list, sequences, compare/contrast, cause/effect, problem/solution, concept/definition, goal/action/outcome format…

6.      The author/presenter probably chose this genre/form because…

c.                   Syntactic Cues (sentence)

7.      The key idea of this sentence is…

8.      The author/presenter used this word order to convey this particular meaning or emphasis of…

9.      This pronoun refers to…

d.                  Semantic/Lexical Cues (word)

10.  An important or key word in this paragraph is…

11.  Because of its context clues,… probably means…

12.  Because of its prefix, suffix, root,… probably means…

e.                   Graphophonic Cues (sound-symbol)

13.  …is pronounced…

14.  …is spelled…

f.                   Other Cues

15.  The author/presenter used these features (e.g., graphs and charts) to help us understand this text…

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