reading strategies

Before, During, and After Reading

By Laticka LongProfessor Jennifer Bishop

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Purpose Of Reading

• To get information about Abraham Lincoln

• To learn new vocabulary

• To learn about what his goals were as president.

Before Reading

• This will prepare students for the passage/book

• It will also allow students to connect the information using the different

strategies with ease • It will help students determine the main idea

Teacher’s Purpose

• Connect new text information to prior knowledge.

• Increase interest

• Introduce a graphic organizer

• Teach a few vocabulary words to understand the text

Teacher Examples

Example: Compassion sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others.

Sentence: He is remembered today for his wisdom, his compassion and his patriotism.

Image:

Vocabulary

Graphic Organizer

Students Learn to:

• Read the title and headings.

• Look at the pictures.

• Predict what the passage might be about.

• Ask themselves what they already know about the topic.

• Consider the purpose of reading

What Student Will Look For

Title

Pictures

Captions

Directions

• I will ask students to look at the title and picture to infer who the passage is about?

• I will have students write his name on the center of their organizer

• I will also tell them to write what they know about him in the outside circles

Abraham

Lincoln

Presidentpenny

During Reading

• This strategy is used to help students make connections with prior knowledge

while reading the text

• This also allows students to actually comprehend what they are reading

Teacher’s Purpose

• use a graphic organizer to teach comprehension strategy or to provide connections between

concepts and other pieces of information in text

• evaluate students’ use of comprehension strategies.

• Explain unknown vocabulary

Comprehension Evaluation

• Ask questions

Examples:

1. What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

2. How did he die?

3. How did he win national attention?

Students Learn too:

• Stop and summarize what has been read

• Make connections

• Think about what they are reading and make sense of it

Questions students ask themselves

1. Who was this about?

2. What has a great affect on the present?

3. How was he remembered?

Directions

• I will have students fill in their graphic organizer as they read.

• They will add to what they know and what they learned.

• I will ask questions about things we read.

Example:

1. What year did he win presidency?

2. Was there anything that you don’t understand?

Abraham

Lincoln

Presidentpenny

1837 became a lawyer

Born 1806N Kentucky

Won in 1860

After Reading

• This allows students to pull all the information together and review what they have read.

• This will allow the teacher to ask questions and see if their students understood what they read

Teacher’s Purpose

• help students incorporate information from text with their

own primary knowledge.

• teach students to summarize main ideas in text.

• Provide the opportunity to

• apply critical thinking skills.

Students Learn too:

• Generate questions about the text

• Write or speak on a specified topic related to material read.

• Compare what was read with something already known.

• Summarize a reading selection.

Directions

• I will have students finish filling in their organizers

• They will a page of questions to ask themselves

• I will ask about other topics and see if students can make the connection

Abraham

Lincoln

Presidentpenny

1837 became a lawyer

Born 1806N Kentucky

Won in 1860

April 15, 1865 was the first president assassinated by John Wilkes

Reelected

Goal was to reunite the North and South

Examples

Questions students will ask themselves:

Topic example to make connections

Examples:1. What did I just read?2. Did I understand it

2. What stood out?3. How is this information important?

Example: • Slavery

• Presidency• War

Why Use Strategies?

• As a reader these are important to enhance awareness and comprehension of what they are reading. Teachers are

there to imbed and magnify these strategies to help make reading more

interesting and comprehensible.

Work Cited

Bursuck, W. D., & Damer, M. (2007). Reading instruction for students who are at risk or have disabilities. Boston: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon.

http://www.k12reader.com/reading-comprehension/GR7_Abraham_Lincoln_Biography.pdf