THE READING CUEING SYSTEM
COMPREHENSION COMES FROM:
Meaning (Does it make sense?)
Structure (Does it sound right?)
Visual (Does it look right?)
Self-Monitoring (the reader's ability to check their own reading behaviors)
Self-Correcting (the reader's ability to correct a miscue in their reading)
The Helping Hand:
1. Stop at the unknown word.
2. Think about the story.
3. Check the picture or visualize the story.
4. Re-read the word or sentence.
5. Does it make sense?
6. Substitute a word that makes sense.
KEEP READING!
Just for fun!
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>I was rdgnieg
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>THE PAOMNNEHAL PWEOR OF THE HMUAN MNID
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>Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it
>deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod
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>lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a
>taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.
>Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey
>lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
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>Amzanig huh?
READER'S WORKSHOP
CAFE strategies are Comprehension, Accuracy, Fluency, Expanding Vocabulary.
Readers Workshop – Strategy Instruction Units (below)
Getting Started: Mini-Lessons:
• Building a community of learners
• Modeling reading behaviors
• Manners for successful dialogue
• Decoding strategies with shared reading experiences
• Expectations for Reading Workshop (procedures)
• Schema for types of books
• Choosing "just right" books
Schema/Making Connections:Mini-Lessons:
• Text-Self
• Meaningful Connections vs. "Coincidences"
• Text-Text
• Text-World
• Expanding schema through topic study
Mental Images/Visualizing: Mini-Lessons:
• "turning the TV on"
• using poetry short texts
• artistic response
• dramatic response
• split images
Inference: Mini-Lessons:
• making sense of unfamiliar words
• making predictions
• unique interpretations of text
Questioning: Mini-Lessons:asking questions Before, During and After Reading
finding answers:
• in the text
• infer from schema
• outside source
• reader's interpretations
Determining Importance/Non-Fiction: Mini-Lessons:
• conventions of non-fiction text
• research
Synthesizing: Mini-Lessons:
• Overall meaning (theme)
• Evolution of thinking
• Retelling
• Getting the essence of the story (literal inferential)
• Share, recommend and criticize literature