Good readers use the title and cover of the text, picture clues inside the text and background knowledge to predict what will happen and make connections between their experiences and the text. This activity gives students opportunities to develop and verbalize metacognitive strategies and monitor their own thinking to improve reading comprehension.
Strategies/Skills Used
Reading Strategy 2: Predict what will be learned or what will happen.
Reading Strategy 6: Connect what you read with what you already know.
Reading Strategy 10: Summarize what has been read.
(1) Use a short piece of literature with a tight plot.
(2) Project an image of the text to students.
(3) Divide the text into a few parts at logical stopping places. Reveal one part of the text at a time and then read the revealed text either aloud or silently.
(4) After reading, ask:
- What is happening here?
- What will happen next?
- Why do you think so?
(5) Read to the next stopping place and repeat the questions.
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