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Reading Strategy 8

“Extract information from text, charts, graphs, maps and illustrations.”

Good readers can locate information in text. They extract the facts to answer questions. They also become familiar with the formats of specialized tools such as charts, graphs, columns, legends, headings, sidebars and scales. They learn the specific organizational rules for each and know how to locate and read the information accurately.

Header-Reading-Activities

  • Anticipation Guide
  • Barrier Games
  • Book Walk
  • Bookmark
  • Jigsaw
  • Know-Wonder-Learn
  • Question and Revise
  • Semantic Mapping/Webbing
  • Think Aloud
  • Thinking While Reading

Header-Reading-Writing-Connect-Activities-2Primary
  • 12 Ways to Get to 11
  • Egg Drop
  • In My Heart
  • Quatre petits coins de rien de tout
  • Spaghetti and Meatballs for All!
  • Who Is the Forest For?
Intermediate
  • Duncan’s Way
  • Le livre des petits pourquoi
  • One Grain of Rice
  • Storm Boy
  • The Man Who Counted
  • The One and Only Ivan
  • The Rabbits (Intermediate)
 Secondary
  • A Coyote Columbus Story
  • Childhood Obesity
  • Climate Change
  • The Emperor of Maladies
  • L’il Trig’s Big Adventure
  • Navigating Panama Canal North
  • The Knife of Never Letting Go
  • The Rabbits (Secondary)
  • The Trouble with Testosterone
  • Vaccine Effectiveness
  • Way Home
  • We Are All Born Free

teacher hints

Discovery Learning

Divide students into groups of three or four. Give each group a text, map or graph. Through questioning, guide them to extract as much information as they can from the material.

• What is its purpose?
• What information does it provide?
• What is the relationship between the data?
• Why might this particular text structure have been chosen to represent this information?

Note: Types of texts include: a variety of poetic forms, plays, newspapers, advertisements, different genres of fiction, cartoons, magazines and non-fiction.

Shared Reading

Put a copy of the text, graph, map or chart to be taught on the overhead projector. Talk about the various features of the text (title, bold words, labels or use of colour) and the purpose of the structure, and introduce specialized vocabulary and symbols.

• Which region has the most/least ... ?
• What does this graph tell you about this country's economic structure?
• How does this legend help you understand the purpose of this map?

Note: Text features include: table of contents, glossary, bibliography, bolded words, boxed information, charts, maps, graphs, pictures, diagrams, headings/sub-headings, captions, summaries, index, appendices, sidebars, units/chapters, introduction/topic sentence.

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