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Reading Strategy 4

“Self-monitor and self-correct.”

Good readers monitor their understanding of a text while reading. Using picture clues, sound-symbol relationships, and context, they confirm their predictions and question anything that doesn’t look right, doesn’t sound right or doesn’t make sense. Students then apply strategies such as read-on or read-back to self-correct.

Header-Reading-Activities

  • Bookmark
  • Sort and Predict
  • Think Aloud
  • Vocabulary Rating
  • What’s in a Name?
  • Word Wall
Primary
  • 12 Ways to Get to 11
  • Bats at the Library
  • Clic Clac Meuh!
  • Click, Clack, Moo
  • Help! A Story of Friendship
  • Premier jour d’école
  • Salmon Creek
  • The Most Magnificent Thing
  • The Name Jar
  • You Call That Brave?

Intermediate
  • Le livre des petits pourquoi
  • Out of My Mind
 Secondary
  • Navigating Panama Canal North
  • To This Day
  • We Are All Born Free
teacher hints

Some fix-up strategies for students to use:

• Sound it out
• Look for the little word in a big word
• Slow down in the difficult parts
• Use context clues
• Use picture clues
• Read past an unknown word and guess
• Re-read the part that doesn't make sense
• Ask for help

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