Set Sail With Reading

Strategic Reading for Middle School GradesNon Fiction

Shyanna Andresen

Analyze New vocabularyContext cluesHypothesize Organize thoughtsReread

Use your A.N.C.H.O.R.

Analyze

Analyze what you are reading. Analyzing will help you group your ideas into

separate compartments. Those idea compartments will keep you

afloat as you sail through the rest of your reading.

Keep analyzing until you finish reading the whole passage.

Write down any new vocabulary words you find in your reading as “stops” you made on your map.

After you are finished reading the passage, you can go back to the vocabulary words on your map, and look them up in a dictionary to better understand what they mean.

Learning new vocabulary will help expand your horizon for your next reading sailing adventure!

New Vocabulary

Think about context clues as points on your map: looking at the land you just left and where you want to go on your journey can

help you determine where your ship is now. Always look at your context clues to help you

with new vocabulary. In doing so, you are looking at the words

before the vocabulary word and the words after the vocabulary word to infer what it means.

Context Clues

You are making a prediction about the passage and the information that it will pertain to in the passage. Make predictions in question forms, this way you

can give before reading answers, during reading answers, and after reading answers and compare them at the end to test validity.

Ask: Who is the story/passage about? What is the story/passage about? Why is this story/ passage useful?

Where is the story/passage taking place? Does the story/passage seem of my interest?

Hypothesize

One definition for the word organize is coordinate.

You can do this on your map with your thoughts by writing them under the places you stop (idea points you analyzed and put into compartments).

Organizing your thoughts properly will help you dramatically when you need to go back to answer questions about the passage or you are studying for a quiz.

Organize thoughts

Rereading a passage can help you: Find ideas, vocabulary words, and important

points you may have sailed past before. Help the information you read make more

sense to you. Help you retain the information for tests or

projects later. Make you a better and faster reader.

Reread

Use your paper like you would a map and as you read the path you write will lead you to

your final destination. Set a purpose for reading. Use your prior knowledge about the subject. Predict what the story will be. Ask questions.

Before Reading

On your map write predictions, prior knowledge, and these questions with your

before reading answers: Who is the story/passage about? What is the story/passage about? Why is this story/ passage useful?

Where is the story/passage taking place? Does the story/passage seem of my interest?

Before Reading Map

Before Reading Map

Before reading you will start

conducting your ‘Hypothesize’ part of your

anchor.

Answer your prediction questions again on your map as you come across them in the passage.

Search for new vocabulary. Use context clues to help you understand

the new vocabulary. Analyze the passage and make

compartments. Organize your thoughts. Reread the passage.

During Reading

During Reading

Using context clues can help you

get through the storm of the

unknown vocabulary words!

Keep going, you can do it!

Analyzing and organizing your thoughts will require you to use your thinking skills, and will help you answer your questions better.

During Reading

By rereading you are able to see things you may not have noticed

before.

During Reading

Get ready to hoist your reading anchor!

After Reading

Were your answers to your questions similar to the ones you made before reading and during reading?

What did you find the second time you read the passage you did not find the first time?

Review what you already know, and what you have learned.

Look up new vocabulary words you wrote down on your map from your journey.

After Reading

Did you enjoy the passage? What about it interested you?

Make a text-to-self or text-to-world connection with the information from the

passage you read.

After Reading

Great Job Sailor!