If you are a victim of books as well, just comment in the comment box about your favourites.
Character Organizer – keeping track of the characters
Character Organizer – keeping track of the characters
Story ___________________________________
Character’s Name
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Physical
Description
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Personality/Qualities
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Role in the Story
(Circle Major or Minor)
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Important Quote
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Major Minor
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Major Minor
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Printable table
Reading Comprehension Strategies
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Make Connections
What connections do I make as I read?
Good readers
notice pieces of
text that relate to or remind them of:
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Their lives,
past experiences, and prior knowledge
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Other books,
articles, movies, songs, or pieces of writing
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Events,
people, or issues
Tips:
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That reminds
me of…
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This made me
think of…
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I read another
book that…
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This is
different from…
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I remember
when…
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Visualize
Good readers
create pictures in their minds while they read.
While reading, note places where you get a clear picture in your mind
that helps you understand the text:
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I can picture…
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I can see the…
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I can
visualize…
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The movie in
my head shows…
·
Use your
senses to connect the characters, events, and ideas to clarify the picture in
your head.
·
I can
taste/hear/smell the…
· I can feel the…
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Ask Questions
Good readers ask questions before, during, and after reading to better
understand the author and the meaning of the text.
Ask questions of the author, yourself, and the text:
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What is the
author trying to say?
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What is the
message of this piece?
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Do I know
something about this topic?
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What do I
think I will learn from this text?
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How could this
be explained to someone else?
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What
predictions do I have about this reading?
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Infer
How do I read between the lines?
When the answers are “right there,” good readers draw conclusions
based on background knowledge and clues in the text.
Ask yourself:
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I wonder why…
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I wonder how…
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I wonder if…
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Find
information from the text that might be clues to the answers and use these
with your background knowledge for possible answers.
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Determine Importance
What’s the big idea?
So what?
Good readers
look for things that help them identify big ideas and why they are important.
Look at text
features for clues:
Titles and
headings
·
Bold print
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Pictures and
captions
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Graphs and
charts
·
Chapter
objectives and questions
Tips:
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The big idea
is…
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Most important
information is...
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So far I’ve
learned…
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The author is
saying…
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This idea is
similar to…
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Synthesize
How do I use what I’ve read to create my own ideas?
Good readers combine new information from their reading with existing
knowledge in order to form new ideas or interpretations.
Synthesis is creating a single understanding from a variety of sources.
Tips:
·
Compare and
contrast what I’m reading with what I already know or other sources of
information.
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Think of new
ways to use this information.
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Can
connections I make across this text help me to create new generalizations or new
perspectives?
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The Book Is NOT Dead
In July 2010, Amazon announced that e-book sales outnumbered sales of
hardcover books for the first time. Amazon claims that, 180 e-books are being
sold for every 100 hardcover books, including hardcovers for which there is no
digital edition.
E-books are a great thing, one can take thousands of
books with them but without all the weight. But books still hold a lot of
charm. I cannot even imagine my home without my favourite hardcover books, and
they are everywhere: near my bed, in the kitchen, on the coffee table, …
Nothing can be compared with the joy they give me.
Which do you prefer: e-books or hardcovers? And why?
By the way, studying the poster can be rather interesting as well.
What are you reading now?
My dear students! I'd like to
know what you are reading now in order to understand your interests and reading
tastes better. So, write comments in a comment box about the book you are
reading at the moment and tell me why you like it or not. As for me, I am
reading The Green Mile by Stephen King now. I like the book very much. I have
seen the film screened after the story, but the novel is much better, it is simply amazing.
The story is about prison
guard Paul Edgecombe and the events that are taking place while he's the head
guard on a death row in the early thirties. Most of the story centres on the
prisoner John Coffey, who's going to "walk the green mile" (there's a
green carpet on the floor down to the electric chair) for raping and killing
two small girls. Coffey is really big, feeble minded and extremely gentle and
Paul soon starts to doubt that Coffey killed the two girls. And gradually you are starting to doubt too, and a deep sympathy to the
suspect is being evoked in your soul.
In my opinion, it is really worth reading, as the novel is extremely deep,
shrilling and thought provoking.
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