Welcome 2017!

resolutions?

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"Goals are dreams with deadlines"

What would you like to achieve this year?

goals can be personal... 

or school-related (academic)

either way, be realistic!

How to set a goal

• Think for a minute
• Choose one goal
• Answer: who can help with this? What will it look like if you achieve it?
• Share your goals with your group

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Good Readers:

Objective:
Students, today I want you to identify some strategies you can use when you encounter an unfamiliar word.

Sometimes, you don't know a word at all

Sometimes, you just don't recognize a word right away (you've heard it before, seen it before)

What are some strategies for tackling unfamiliar words?

What do you do?

1. Sound it out

2. Reread the sentence

3. Break the word up into parts

4. Skip the word and see if it still makes sense

5. Read ahead a little bit

6. Reread the sentence and say "blank" instead of the word. Then ask, "what would make sense here?"

Tackling Tricky Words

• Sound it out
• Reread the sentence
• Break the word into parts
• Skip the word and see if it still makes sense
• Read ahead a little bit
• Reread the sentence and try to replace the tricky word with another word

Otorhinolaryngologist

“oto-rhino-laryng-ologist”

Serendipity

Seren-dip-ity

Discovering that humans can eat potatoes was serendipitous

Serendipitous?

Discovering humans could eat potatoes was ..........

Tackling Tricky Words

• Sound it out
• Reread the sentence
• Break the word into parts
• Skip the word and see if it still makes sense
• Read ahead a little bit
• Reread the sentence and try to replace the tricky word with another word

Now you try!

Good Readers:

We've already talked about things you do to help you monitor your own understanding

And, we've talked about strategies for tackling tricky words

Today, we're going to think through this question:

"What do I do when I loose track of what's going on?"

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A great way to stay on track is to ask yourself questions before, during, and after your reading

Q: What can you ask yourself before you start reading?

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• Who are the characters?
• What happened when I left off reading?
• What do I think will happen next?
• Is there a chapter title that can give me a hint?

Q: What can you ask yourself during your reading?

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• Who is in this scene?
• What's the setting?
• What is this section about?
• Was my prediction from earlier wrong?
• Do I need to reread a paragraph or section?
• How does this new information relate to what I already know?

(Questions for fiction reading might be different than questions for non-fiction informational reading)

Staying on Track:

• Stop
• Think
• Question
• Reread

P.S. Don't forget - you can always abandon a book if you need to (as long as you don't abandon every book!)

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