Exciting Vocabulary

I know, find and use interesting words

*Ask . . . Does this make sense?

*Remember what was read

*Monitor meaning and "check for Understanding"

*Summarize the text

*Retell the story

*Use text features to helpunderstand text

*Use text features tohelp understand the text

*Ask myself. . . Do I have any background knowledge about the book?

*Make connections to what was read

*Predict what will happen, use text to confirm

*Ask questions while reading

*Make a picture or mental image

*Infer using prior knowledge and the text, support with evidence

*Determine importance using theme, main ideas and supporting details

*Recognize and explain cause and effect relationships

*Recognize literary devices (simile, personification, humor, metaphor, idiom, imager, exaggeration, and dialogue) explain how they make the story more interesting

*Determine authors purpose and support with text

*Analyze and draw conclusions based on evidence from the text

*Use monitoring strategies of reread, look forward and word recognition to gain meaning

*Back up and reread

*Cross Checking. . . Does this make sense, do the letters match?

*Blend sounds. . . Stretch and reread

*Chunk letters together

*Use beginning sounds and ending sounds

*Use the picture. . . Do the words and pictures match?

*Skip the word then come back

*Trade a word

*Sound it out

*Reread to make it smooth

*Read common sight words with automaticity

*Adjust reading pacing and rate to match purpose and difficulty

*Read accurately with expression, pacing and phrasing to enhance comprehension

*I read, you read the same words

*Practice reading plays, poems or choral reading

*Apply different reading rates to match text

*Tune in to interesting words and use new vocabulary in my reading and writing

*Reread to clarify meaning of word

*Read on

*Adjust reading rate

*Use prior knowledge and context to predict and confirm meaning

*Use pictures, illustrations and diagrams

*Use prefixes, suffixes and abbreviations to determine the meaning of the word

*Use word origins and knowledge of affixes and roots

*Ask someone to define the word for you

*Use dictionaries, thesauruses and glossaries

*Understand and apply content vocabulary critical to the meaning of the text