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Reading Strategy 1

“Access background knowledge.”

Good readers call forward and integrate information, including language and print conventions and prior experience. This enables them to make meaning and build upon what they already know in relation to the text. It also aids the recognition of words which may only be in their oral vocabulary.

Header-Reading-Activities

  • Anticipation Guide
  • Bookmark
  • Brainstorming
  • Building from Clues
  • Guided Imagery (Secondary)
  • Know-Wonder-Learn
  • Memoir
  • Mood Swing
  • Picture Walk
  • Question and Revise
  • Response Logs/Reflective Journal
  • Say Something
  • Semantic Mapping/Webbing
  • Snatching a Series
  • Sort and Predict
  • Think Aloud
  • Thinking Like an Author
  • Vocabulary Rating
  • What’s Inside?

 Primary
  • 10 idées écolos pour sauver ma planète
  • 10 Things I Can Do to Help My World
  • 12 Ways to Get to 11
  • Bats at the Library
  • Clic Clac Meuh!
  • Click, Clack, Moo
  • Dooby Dooby Moo
  • Emu
  • Frisson l’écureuil
  • The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School
  • I Wish You More
  • In My Heart
  • Is There Really a Human Race?
  • Le Zloukch
  • Move Over, Rover!
  • One Is a Snail Ten is a Crab
  • Peace Is an Offering
  • Salmon Creek
  • Spaghetti and Meatballs for All!
  • Taan’s Moons
  • The Most Magnificent Thing
  • The Salamander Room
  • Who Is the Forest For?
  • You’ve Got Dragons

Intermediate
  • Baseball Saved Us
  • Crickwing
  • Duncan’s Way
  • Mr. Hiroshi’s Garden
  • The New Kid on the Block
  • One Grain of Rice
  • Orca Chief
  • Out of My Mind
  • People of the Land
  • Shi-shi-etko
  • Storm Boy
  • The Man Who Counted
  • The One and Only Ivan
  • The Rabbits (Intermediate)
  • Wonder

Secondary
  • A Coyote Columbus Story
  • Climate Change
  • The Emperor of Maladies
  • Legend of the Sugar Girl
  • L’il Trig’s Big Adventure
  • Navigating Panama Canal North
  • Thank You, M’am
  • The Knife of Never Letting Go
  • The Rabbits (Secondary)
  • The Three Questions
  • The Trouble with Testosterone
  • To This Day
  • Vaccine Effectiveness
  • Way Home
  • We Are All Born Free

teacher hints
Suggested teacher questions:

"What does this make you think of?"

"What do you already know about ________?"

"Tell about a time when you ________?"

"Where (or when) have you learned about this subject before?"

"Can you think of something that is similar?"

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