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WRITING TO IMPROVE READING

WRITING TO IMPROVE READING. A Workshop By Laura Robb. WHAT A strategy that prepares you for reading WHY Builds background knowledge Introduces vocabulary Starts thinking process with connections Encourages you to use information to predict. WHEN

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WRITING TO IMPROVE READING

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  1. WRITING TO IMPROVE READING A Workshop By Laura Robb

  2. WHAT A strategy that prepares you for reading WHY Builds background knowledge Introduces vocabulary Starts thinking process with connections Encourages you to use information to predict WHEN Nonfiction books, magazines, textbooks, newspapers HOW Read bold face title, headings, words: connect Read captions Read maps, graphs, pictures, captions Connect information to ideas in text and to what you know Predict what you think you will learn by reading PREVIEW/CONNECT/PREDICT

  3. Questions to Ask Fiction and Nonfiction: • What is the author trying to tell you about the main character? • What does the author want you to know? • What is the big idea in this part? • What does the author mean? • Does what happened here make sense with what happened before?

  4. Questions to Ask Questions for stories: • How do things look for this character now? • How does the author help you know that the character has changed? • How does the author make you feel about this character? Explain. • Why does the author have the character in a specific situation? What do you learn from this? • What big ideas is the author trying to help you understand? • Why does the author change the setting?

  5. QUESTIONS AND THINK Title and author_____________________________________________________ What does it say? What does it mean? Why does it matter?

  6. Try a Strategy That Works for Summarizing Informational Texts Directions • Jot down a topic, two fascinating facts, and how the book changed your thinking to help you summarize a nonfiction book • Jot down notes for each word or phrase below. • To write the summary, turn the notes under each heading into a complete sentence. Include the title and author of your book in your first sentence. Title and Author of Informational Book__________________________ Write your summary on a separate sheet of paper.

  7. THIS STRATEGY HELPS YOU…consider how learning new information can change the way you think about a topic and enlarge what you know about that topic Information Book Can Change Your Thinking Directions: • Under Important Information, write two facts or ideas from your book that you feel others should know. Then explain why you’d share each one • Under New or Surprising Information, list a piece of information or an idea that changed your thinking, then explain how your thinking changed Title and Author of Informational Book__________________________

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