The ABC's of What Good Readers Do
Here are some ways that you can become a better reader
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Anticipate Meaning |
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Become Lifelong Readers |
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Use your own experiences to figure out what is happening in the story. |
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Keep reading materials around you to keep you actively reading. |
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Choose Your Own |
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Do Not Read Every Word or Letter |
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Pick books you enjoy. |
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Focus on the main text so you are not distracted by over thinking the story. |
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Elaborate on Important Parts of the Text |
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Focus on Fluency by |
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Use your imagination with the text to remember the important parts. |
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Read lots of different types of materials to become well-rounded. |
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Get Books |
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Have a Purpose for |
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Use the library to get more books, visit a used bookstore, ask for books as gifts or borrow books from friends. |
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Choose a book to learn something new. Choose a book that you enjoy. |
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Image when Your Read |
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Just Skim Sometimes and Read Slowly Other Times |
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Take a picture in your mind of what you are reading. |
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Change how fast you read, sometimes read every word, sometimes skim. |
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Know About Their Own Mental Skills |
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Listen & Enjoy Stories & Books Being Read Aloud |
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Know your reading skills and challenge yourself to get more out of your reading. |
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Read out loud to your family and friends. Visit a book reading at the library and take time to have your friends read to you. |
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Make Personal Connections |
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Negotiate Meaning by using Cues |
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Think about how the characters in the story are like you. Think about your life and how the story is like you. |
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Think about cues : what you know about your world, what sounds right, the word meanings and letter-sound association. |
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Often Self Correct |
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Paraphrase Periodically |
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Skip words you don't know, use a dictionary and reread to really understand. |
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Use your own words to have things make sense. |
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Question |
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Respond to Literature |
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Ask questions about what you have read and find the answers. |
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Think about how your book makes you feel. How will it change you? How will you think differently? |
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Share with Others |
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Take Time to Read, Read, Read |
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Talk to your family and friends about what you have read. |
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Set aside some time just for reading. |
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Use Prior Knowledge |
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Validate Predictions |
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Relate what you know to the story. |
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Try to figure out what will happen. When you are right, you are understanding what you are reading. |
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Write |
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Expect |
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Write about what you have read so you can remember and understand it better. |
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When you know you will understand what you are reading, you will get more out of it. |
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Yearn to Read |
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Zero in on Learning Strategies When They Need Them |
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Always have a book ready so when you want to read, you can. |
Let the author teach you something by being open. |
