BEFORE READING: Preview

Preview:

• Skimming: Read the first and last paragraphs and the first sentences of all other parageraphs
• Scanning: Look only for key information - names, dates, places, numerical data, charts...

Create a hypothesis by making a prediction:

• Assimilate: What fits in to what you already know?
• Accommodate: What is totally new to your background?

Set a Goal

• Personal and motivating
• Provides a purpose for reading that can be combined with teacher's purpose.
  
  

DURING READING: Monitor

Reflective / Recursive Reading:

Monitor your awareness of what was just read:

• Recollection / review
• Evaluation of Data and Comprehension Competency
• Written response and record

Regulate your comprehension: coping, enhancing, correcting, continuing

AFTER READING: Review

Reconcile any study guide sheets: DR-TA, KWL, SQ3R. Vocabulary...

• Your Highlighting and / or Underlining
• Your written commentary
• Any study guide sheets: DR-TA, KWL, SQ3R, Study Questions, Vocabulary

Discuss Responses

Complete all other after reading tasks or tests

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