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Rereading. By Krystal Schneider & Kristin Lounsbury. What is it?. Have you ever watched a movie for the first time, then watched it again later, and saw something you didn’t see before? This example is what rereading is like.
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Rereading By Krystal Schneider & Kristin Lounsbury
What is it? • Have you ever watched a movie for the first time, then watched it again later, and saw something you didn’t see before? • This example is what rereading is like. • Rereading means that a reader has read a text at least one time, and finds that he/she didn’t fully understand it, so they go back and read the passage over again. • Rereading can, and should, occur many times throughout a reading, and is a great strategy that skilled readers use to gain further comprehension.
Why Do it? • If rereading is nothing different from reading, why do it… • To pause, loop back, read again so that a reader can: • Reflect • Start over • Proceed more slowly • It is something all good readers do and it is an important strategy to use. • The more you read something the more you find new information. • It allows you to see things in the text that you might not see on the first read. • It helps the reader better predict what will happen next.
Teaching Strategy • It is usually the first strategy independent readers use and the last strategy dependent readers use. • First prove that rereading is valuable • Have them read a passage 3 times and rate it after each reading. • Model your thinking as you reread a text. • Read aloud a short passage and think through what was happening in the text. Repeat. • Give students specific tasks as they reread. • Have students brainstorm instances while rereading. • Example: Focus on characters, or words • Review what happened after a reread. • Transitioning from rereading to reviewing will really highlight the value of rereading.
Personal ExamplesAt the Sign of the Star by Katherine Sturtevant • I was reading At the Sign of the Star and at the very beginning of the book, it gives the date: 1677. A little while later in the story, the main character has a prediction made about her life. The prediction states that there will be a "discord between nations." I went back to the beginning of the story to see if the discord might be the American Revolutionary War. It wasn't, but I wanted to make that little prediction for what might be to come until the correct date changed my prediction. • http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0374404585/ref=sib_dp_ptu#reader-link
Personal ExamplesMarie, Dancing by Carolyn Meyer • http://www.amazon.com/gp/sitbv3/reader?asin=0152058796&pageID=S045&checkSum=7NOE0+lKxSuKJ1yvpIg3NLMRWd0VEl4RFtOBTTSaKj4=
Is it any good? • Rereading is a great strategy to use, we use it many times during our own reading. • We like this technique because it helps us better understand the things we don’t get in the first reading and helps us find new information. • Any age can use this strategy because it is a useful tool to use when things don’t make sense in a story, or if you find a section interesting and need to read it again.
Works Cited • Information on Rereading • Beers, K. (2003). When Kids Can't Read What Teachers Can Do. Portsmouth: Heinemann. • Book Examples • Meyer, C. (2005). Marie, Dancing. Orlando: Gulliver Books. • Sturtevant, K. (2000). At the Sign of the Star. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. • Online Reader and Links • http://www.amazon.com
