Reading Update

Readers are working hard as we learn and incorporate these skills during our non-fiction unit:

-Preview a book to learn about the topic.
-Notice similarities and differences between fiction and nonfiction texts.
-Explain facts or details using text features and distinguish between what facts were provided by -pictures and what facts were conveyed via words
-Use text features to locate specific information in text
-Use text features to restate the main topic
-Describe the connection between two pieces of information in a text
-Use pictures to find details and information to support the text.
-Ask and answer questions to clarify meaning
-Distinguish between fiction and nonfiction
-Identify examples of sensory details
-Visualize the text to infer what happened before and after.
-Synthesize a text by putting all the parts of the text together.
-Recall key details learned in a book.
-Take turns building ideas talking about a book with a partner.
-Apply decoding strategies and notice patterns in nonfiction text.
-Notice patterns in the beginning, middle, and end of words.
-Break apart words and put words back together.
-Check that words look right and make sense.
-Use word meaning to decode new words.
-Determine word meaning from the context
-Use keywords when thinking and talking about information learned.
-Reread a page different ways until it sounds right.
-Distinguish important vs. interesting details.
-Read with expression.