Strategies/Skills Used
Reading Strategy 1: Access background knowledge.
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 8: Extract information from text, charts, graphs, maps and illustrations.
Reading Strategy 11: Make inferences and draw conclusions.
(1) Show students an illustration from the beginning of the story.
(2) Have students discuss the illustration in a small group, answering the following questions:
- What do you notice?
- What do you think is happening?
- Where is this taking place?
- Who are these characters (people)?
- What are the relationships between these characters (people)?
(3) Have groups share their ideas with whole class. Discuss similarities and differences. Discuss the process:
- Was this easy? If so, why?
- Was this difficult? If so, why?
- Did you have enough information?
(4) Show the students the next illustration from the story. Repeat step (2), adding new information to what they already know from first illustration.
(5) Repeat step (3).
(6) Repeat procedure with all, or some, of the book.
(7) Read the story/text.
(8) Discuss the process and how it enhanced the student’s thinking.
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