What We've Been Learning In ELA
By: Mallory Millsap
Reading Strategies
For the past couple weeks we have been learning about reading strategies to better understand what we are reading. The strategies include predicting, visualizing, questioning, connecting, identifying, inferring (drawing conclusions), evaluating, and using our inner voice the correct way.
Reading Strategies
Predicting
Predicting is making a guess on what is going to happen in the story. We need to use a specific quote from the text and use are background knowledge. Our predictions may not always be correct, but they do help us better understand our reading.
Visualizing
When you visualize, you form a mental picture. It's almost like playing a movie inside your head. Visualizing helps us picture the story and when we can see what you are reading this shows that you are understanding what you are reading.
Question
When we question, we are asking something about the story. We use sentence starters like, who, what, when, where, how, why, and I wonder. We answer questions while we read the story so our questions get answered closer to the end, when our questions are answered we understand the story more.
Prediction
When we predict we use clues in the story and schema to guess what's going to happen next.
Visualizing
In ELA , we visualized what we thought a new found species of animal called a Grenod. I visualized this weird looking creature but no one else vizualized anything else like me.
Question
When we question we use different sentence starters. But when the story answers our questions we better understand our reading.
These are only three of the reading strategies. All of these reading strategies help us better understand our reading.
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