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Reading Strategies

Reading Strategies. Questioning and Predicting. Good Reading Habits. Good readers have developed strategies to help them understand , connect to, and determine the importance of what they are reading.

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Reading Strategies

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  1. Reading Strategies Questioning and Predicting

  2. Good Reading Habits Good readers have developed strategies to help them understand, connect to, and determine the importance of what they are reading. They also visualize, ask questions about, and read between the lines of what they read. They use what they know about the world to predict what will come next.

  3. Good questions to ask • Why is something happening, rather than what is happening. • Why is something not happening? • Why is a character feeling or acting a certain way, rather than what is a character feeling? • Why did the author use a particular word? • How do I connect with this character? • How is this character going to get what he/she wants?

  4. Ask Questions—Make Predictions Sample “City of Bones” by Cassandra Clare

  5. "You've got to be kidding me," the bouncer said, folding his arms across his massive chest. He stared down at the boy in the red zip-up jacket and shook his shaved head. "You can't bring that thing in here." The fifty or so teenagers in line outside the Pandemonium Club leaned forward to eavesdrop. It was a long wait to get into the all-ages club, especially on a Sunday, and not much generally happened in line. The bouncers were fierce and would come down instantly on anyone who looked like they were going to start trouble. Fifteen-year-old Clary Fray, standing in line with her best friend, Simon, leaned forward along with everyone else, hoping for some excitement. "Aw, come on." The kid hoisted the thing up over his head. It looked like a wooden beam, pointed at one end. "It's part of my costume." The bouncer raised an eyebrow. "Which is what?" The boy grinned. He was normal-enough-looking, Clary thought, for Pandemonium. He had electric blue dyed hair that stuck up around his head like the tendrils of a startled octopus, but no elaborate facial tattoos or big metal bars through his ears or lips. "I'm a vampire slayer." He pushed down on the wooden thing. It bent as easily as a blade of grass bending sideways. "It's fake. Foam rubber. See?" The boy's wide eyes were way too bright a green, Clary noticed: the color of antifreeze, spring grass. Colored contact lenses, probably. The bouncer shrugged, abruptly bored. "Whatever. Go on in." The boy slid past him, quick as an eel. Clary liked the lilt to his shoulders, the way he tossed his hair as he went. There was a word for him that her mother would have used -- insouciant. "You thought he was cute," said Simon, sounding resigned. "Didn't you?" Clary dug her elbow into his ribs, but didn't answer.

  6. “City of Bones” Sept. 10/10 Questions:I wonder what will happen with Clary and the boy with the blue hair and green eyes. Clary’s mother would call him ‘insouciant’, I wonder what that means. Prediction:I predict that Clary will meet this boy again, if not right away inside the club, then later on. The author makes a point of noting his unique appearance, and I think she’s done this for a reason.

  7. Insouciant – adjective free from concern, worry, or anxiety; carefree; nonchalant.

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