Flip ChartCRITICAL ASSIGNMENT 1

Before Reading!

KWL chart…Before reading we will make a KWL chart

This is what we know about the book, what we want to know

about the book, and when were done reading we will fill out the L

which is what we learned.

Before Reading!

We predict what the passage might be about!

In other words, we make guesses about what might happen in the

story!

Before Reading!

We choose important vocabulary words to focus on

We learn the definitions of those words

This will help us gain understanding of the text we

read!

Before Reading!

We will read the titles and headings

This will give us an idea of what the book is about

Sometimes the titles and captions help us understand the main idea!

Before Reading!

We can make a graphic organizerThis will help us

organize informationAnd get ready to

read!

During Reading!

We STOP sometimes during reading and summarize what we have already read!

This helps us REMEMBER and COMPREHEND what we read.

This way we actually LEARN it instead of MEMORIZING it.

During Reading

We practice VISUALIZING what we are reading!

We can look up pictures or videos to help us understand too!

If we read about tigers we VISUALIZE tigers!

During Reading!

We can stop to ask questions when we don’t understand

something!We can also decide whether something makes sense or not

from what we've read.

During Reading!

We can predict what will happen next in the text based on what we read!

This makes us THINK about what might happen, or what we might learn about!

It also keeps us focused so we can make EDUCATED guesses!

During Reading!

When we stop to ask questions we can also talk about words we didn’t know.

How did you figure out what they mean? Did you use context clues? Did you just skip the word?

Tell me what you did.

After Reading!

We will finish filling out our KWL chart with what we learned from reading our

book. We will also talk about what we learned

What we found interesting And what our favorite part of the book.

After Reading!

We will summarize what the book was about…

This will include asking questions for understanding..

Explaining what the book was about to show comprehension.

After Reading!

We can talk about what was confusing and what we didn’t understand.

We can also talk about what we could do next time to better prepare for

reading the text.

After Reading!

We will have a comprehension worksheet

This is to make sure that the information we learned stays in

our LONGTERM memory!

After Reading!

We will talk about which of our predictions were right, and which we

got wrong. We will talk about why we thought

those things would happen in the book and where our prior knowledge

came from.

REFERENCES

Bursuck, W. D., &amp; Damer, M. (2011). <i>Teaching reading to students who are at risk or have disabilities: A multi-tier approach</i>. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.