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Check for understanding.

Back up and reread.


Monitor and fix up.

Retell the story
Use what I already know to
connect with the story.
Make a picture in my
mind.

Ask myself questions
NtM ' MQt,
Predict what will happen
next and check the story.
Infer and support with
evidence.

Use text features.
Titles,, headings captions graphics
Summarize the text
including sequence of main events.
Use main idea and details to
determine what is important.

MMtM M U']
purpose.
Recognize literacy elements: genre,
plot character setting problem/resolution
theme.
Recognize and explain cause and
effect relationships.

Compare and contrast within
and between text



Cross Checking: Does it sound
right,? Look right? Make sense?
Use the pictures... Do the words
and pictures match?
Use beginning and ending sounds.

Blend sounds: stretch and
reread.
Flip the sound.
Chunk letters and sounds together.

Skip the word and come
back to it.
Trade a word/guess a
word that makes sense.


Voracious Reading:
Read! Read! Read!
Read books that are a
QQ t,
Reread text.

Practice common sight words
and Word Wall Words.
Adjust and apply different
reading rates to match text.
Pay attention to punctuation to
enhance the way your reading
sounds.

Voracious Reading:
Read! Read! Read!
Tune in to interesting Words.
Use new vocabulary in speaking and
writing.
Use pictures and illustrations.

Use word parts to determine
the meaning of words.
Use what I already know and context
to predict and confirm meaning.
Ask someone to define the
word for you.

Use dictionaries,; thesauruses
and glossaries as tools.

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