LESSON THREE: Strategies Used During Reading

                             

LESSON DESCRIPTION

Students develop and apply strategies to self-question and correct, infer, visualize, predict and check.

 

GRADE-LEVEL EXPECTATIONS

CA3        During reading, develop and apply strategies to self-question and correct, infer, visualize, predict and check.

 

LESSON MATERIALS

§         Sources of literature 

 

§         Supplies 

o        Sticky notes for each student

 

§         Handouts provided

o        None

 

§         Words to Know

o        predict

o        infer

o        visualize

 

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT 

After reading a new nonfiction passage and flagging a during-reading strategy, students use sticky notes to identify places where they use the “during reading” strategies charted and practiced in day’s lesson.

 

LEARNING ACTIVITIES

  1. In groups, students brainstorm and list reading strategies they use during reading and share with the class. Write these strategies on a wall chart for reference.

 

Questions

for

Students

How do reading strategies make us better readers?

What are some of the other strategies that you can use to help understand text?

 

  1. Using an overhead, display a passage related to the natural disasters. Read a passage aloud by reading the title only first and stopping to allow students to predict what the passage is about. Continue to read through the body of the passage. Discuss and add any reading strategies not included previously on the wall chart.

 

Questions

for

Students

What do you predict the article is bout?

What is the author trying to tell you?

What questions do you have to answer as you read this passage?

Can you visualize what our town would look like after a natural disaster?

Are there any more predictions you would like to make?

 

  1. Students add flags to identify places in the passage where they might use during-reading strategies from previously created wall chart.

 

Idea

Create symbols (flags) on a transparency to help students during the activity. These symbols can be placed on the chart and used throughout the year. Some of these symbols include:

Q – questioning

V – visualizing

P – predicting

I – inferring

 

Students continue to use the symbols in the Lesson Assessment using sticky notes for independent practice.