Reading Strategy:

Making Predictions
Teaching Points:
Good readers activate prior knowledge before reading a new
text.
Good readers think ahead and anticipate, or predict, what will
happen while they read.
Good readers use text clues and their own experiences to
make predictions across chapters as they read longer books.
Good readers change their predictions as they gather new
evidence as they read.
Good readers use text clues and their own experiences to
anticipate how a character may act or solve a problem.

Mentor Text Must Reads:

Enemy Pie by Derek Munson
The Curious Garden by Peter Brown

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 Reading Strategy:
Visualizing
Teaching Points:
Good readers use text language to create mental images in
their mind to represent the ideas they read.
Good readers use their five senses to help them make mental
images as they read.
Good readers make mental images about the characters,
setting, events, and important objects as they read, to help
them understand each element more deeply.
Good readers visualize as they read to help them predict what
will happen next or how a character may act.
Good readers create a quick sketch of important story
elements to help them recall important parts of the text.

Mentor Text Must Reads:

Scarecrow’s Dance by Jane Yolen
Owl Moon by Jane Yolen
Bad Case of the Stripes by David Shannon
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 Reading Strategy:
Asking Questions
Teaching Points:
Good readers ask questions as they read to help them
understand and infer the text.
Good readers ask “thick” questions that require the reader to
think beyond the text to answer the question.
Good readers record the thick questions that they ask before,
during and after they read.
Good readers answer the questions that they ask using story
clues and their own experiences. (inference)
Good readers ask their own questions as they read to help
them understand the characters that they meet more deeply.

Mentor Text Must Reads:

Knots on a Counting Rope by Bill Martin
Sam, Bangs, and Moonshine by Evaline Ness

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 Reading Strategy:
Summarizing
Teaching Points:
Good readers collect only the most important part of the texts
(story elements) that they read to summarize the story in
their own words.
Good readers pause throughout their reading to collect and
record important information to help them summarize what
they have read.
Good readers summarize as they read to carry important
information from one chapter to the next.
Good readers summarize before, during, and after they read.
Good readers use specific names and information when
writing summaries.
NOTE: When teaching summarizing, I do not read a new book. Instead I
use previously read mentor texts to practice summarizing together.
This allows the students to focus on the skill of summarizing, instead
of focusing on understanding a new book.

Previously Read Mentor Texts:

A Bad Case of the Stripes by David Shannon
The Curious Garden by Peter Brown
Enemy Pie by Derek Munson
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 Reading Strategy:
Making Inferences
Teaching Points:
Good readers collect important information and ask thick
questions as they read to make inferences about the text.
Good readers combine text evidence and background
knowledge to infer the author’s meaning of the texts that they
read.
Good readers make inferences to get to know the characters’
feelings, emotions and traits.
Good readers make inferences to understand the author’s
message and theme.
Good readers make inferences before, during and after they
read.

Mentor Text Must Reads:

The Wretched Stone, written by Chris Van Allsburg
The Stranger by: Chris Van Allsburg

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