Comprehension

      Accuracy

      Fluency

Expanding Vocabulary

I understand what I read

I can read the words

I can read accurately, with expression and understand what I read

I know, find, and use interesting words

STRATEGIES

STRATEGIES

STRATEGIES

STRATEGIES

Check for understanding

Cross checking – Do the pictures and/or words look right?  Does it sound right and make sense?

Voracious reading

Voracious reading

Back up and reread

Use the picture – Do the words and picture match?

Read appropriate level text that are “Good Fit”

Tune in to interesting words and use new vocabulary in my speaking and writing

Monitor and fix up

Use beginning sounds and ending sounds

Reread text

Use pictures, illustrations, and diagrams

Retell the story

Blend sounds, stretch and read

Practice common sight words and high frequency words

Use word parts to determine meaning of words (prefixes, suffixes, origins, abbreviations

Use prior knowledge to connect with text

Flip the sounds

Adjust and apply different reading rates to match text

Use prior knowledge and context to predict and confirm meaning

Make a picture or mental image

Chunk letters and sounds together

Use punctuation to enhance phrasing and prosody (end marks, commas, etc…)

Ask someone to define the word for you

Ask questions throughout the reading process

Skip the word and then come back

Use dictionaries, thesauruses, and glossaries as tools

Predict what will happen, use text to confirm

Trade a word/guess a word that makes sense

Infer and support with evidence

Use test features (titles, headings, captions, graphic features)

Summarize text, include sequence of main events

Use main idea and supporting details to determine importance

Determine and analyze author’s purpose and support with text

Recognize literary elements (genre, plot, character, setting, problem, solution)