9 Habits of Good Readers
Do these basics to strengthen your reading skills in any subject
1. Activate Prior Knowledge: *Text to self *Text to world *Text to text
2. Visualize: Make a mental picture of what you're reading.
3. Question: What’s important? What else do I need to know? Utilize Bloom's Taxonomy of Thinking Skills
4. Infer: See beyond the surface and formulate answers based on details and prior knowledge.
5. Synthesize: Put information together to create new meaning.
6. Determine Importance: Sift through textual and visual information to determine what matters.
7. Utilize Vocabulary Skills: Pay attention to roots, context clues, etc.
8. Maintain Fluency: Know when to speed up & when to slow down when reading.
9. Monitor for Meaning: Do you understand the reading, vocabulary, etc.? Are you taking notes?
What Reading Level Do You Use?
Level One (Simple Reading)
LITERAL - What is actually stated.
Level Two (Advanced Reading)
INTERPRETIVE - What is implied or meant, rather than what is actually stated.
Level Three (Complex Reading)
APPLIED - Taking what was said (literal) and then what was meant by what was said (interpretive)
and then extending (applying) the concepts or ideas beyond the situation.
2. Visualize: Make a mental picture of what you're reading.
3. Question: What’s important? What else do I need to know? Utilize Bloom's Taxonomy of Thinking Skills
4. Infer: See beyond the surface and formulate answers based on details and prior knowledge.
5. Synthesize: Put information together to create new meaning.
6. Determine Importance: Sift through textual and visual information to determine what matters.
7. Utilize Vocabulary Skills: Pay attention to roots, context clues, etc.
8. Maintain Fluency: Know when to speed up & when to slow down when reading.
9. Monitor for Meaning: Do you understand the reading, vocabulary, etc.? Are you taking notes?
What Reading Level Do You Use?
Level One (Simple Reading)
LITERAL - What is actually stated.
- Facts and details
- Rote learning and memorization
- Surface understanding only
- Objective answers (true/false, multiple choice)
- Who, what, when, where questions
Level Two (Advanced Reading)
INTERPRETIVE - What is implied or meant, rather than what is actually stated.
- Drawing inferences
- Tapping into prior knowledge / experience
- Attaching new learning to old information
- Making logical leaps and educated guesses
- Reading between the lines to determine what is meant by what is stated.
- Subjective answers (why, what if, how questions)
Level Three (Complex Reading)
APPLIED - Taking what was said (literal) and then what was meant by what was said (interpretive)
and then extending (applying) the concepts or ideas beyond the situation.
- Analyzing
- Synthesizing
- Applying