We learned a lot about different reading strategies from your peers this past week with the great presentations that you all put together. Now, the question is, "How will you use those reading strategies?" Explain one or two specific reading strategies you learned about that you will try to use during the rest of the year to help improve your understanding or just make your studying easier.
The babysitter by Diana Diamond
ReplyDeleteReread and vocab look-up are 2 strategies that I will use, sometimes I get excited about a book and then end up going back and rereading a section of the book because I missed something important or just didn't completely understand it. I also, usually read big books and there are different words in there that I can be oblivious to, so I will get out my home dictionary and use look them up.
I am reading liar, liar.
ReplyDeleteI will use asking questions, because then I will no what I am reading. Asking questions will help me understand the book a lot better! I will also use looking for bold or underlined words to help me find the main subjects of the reading.
Making a Connection to the reading helps a lot when you can visualize something that happened to you that was similar in the story or something that involves the world or another text that I have read. Also making a mental image of what the scene is in the book helps be depict the character and what is going on around him/her.
ReplyDeleteBuried by Robin Merrow MacCready
ReplyDeleteI will use drawing inferences to help me figure out the big picture from little clues while I'm reading a book for class. I will also use determining importance as a way to help me decide which facts and details I should put in my notes to study.
The Harlequin
ReplyDeleteLaurell K. Hamilton
Fix-up strategies; for the more ostentatious words and paragraphs, so that I will hopefully broaden my vocabulary and be able to repair any meaning that is lost. Which should hopefully help with studying.
The Assist by Neil Swidey
ReplyDeleteCreating mental images is the first reading strategy that I will use throughout the rest of the year. I have always used this strategy unknowing that it was an actual strategy. Visual aids have always helped me picture something in the reading. Drawing inferences is another reading strategy I will use. I usually have prior knowledge to literature and like to make predictions as to what will happen next in whatever writing I am reading. I believe that these two strategies will help me the most in more improving understanding and some studying.
Whitetail nation by Peter Bodo
ReplyDeleteone of the thing i learned was that if you imagine the what you are reading that you will get a better understand of what they'er doing and what their going to do. When i imagine what they're doing i understand what they are telling the reader.
Danger Zone by David Klass. I will use visualization more, so I can better understand the things I read by imagining them. I will also try to use context clues to help me interpret parts of a reading that I do not fully understand.
ReplyDeleteAlong for the Ride by: Sarah Dessen
ReplyDeleteRepairing meaning when understand breaks down would be the strategies i would use while reading a book. I always catch myself day-dreaming or not understanding what i previously read, rereading the text helps me by going back and reading the passage enough times until I fully get the meaning.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by: J.K. Rowling
ReplyDeleteI often times find myself asking questions in my head that will some how help me relate to the text, or get a better visual or understanding of what I'm perhaps am reading. It's usually the best strategy I use, let alone the only strategy I ever personally use.
The Adventure of Huckleberry finn by Mark Twain
ReplyDeleteOne of the reading strategies that I learned is that if you dont under stand the reading go back over the reading a second time to get the full meaning of it. Another strategie is that when you dont understand a word read around it to see if the storie gives you any hints.If that dose not work go to a dictionary to find out the definition to the word. I will be able to use these strategies in a lot of my classes threw out the year.
Anne Frank and the Children of the Holocaust by: Carol Lee
ReplyDeleteVisualization is very helpful with this book. It is explaining the lives of children during the holocaust. It describes the things that happen to the jews and making mental images helps understand what these people went through.
Questioning the reading is also helpful. While reading this book there are many things I wonder about. Some of the things are said in the reading but there are also deeper thoughts and questions about this time period that are not stated directly.
The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan
ReplyDeleteThe reading strategy I plan on using most is connecting. I like to relate what is happening in the literature I'm reading to something in my life. For instance, Percy lost his memory. I can connect to that by thinking about how it feels when I can't remember something like where I placed my car keys.
Squires Tale by Gerald Morris
ReplyDeleteThe reading strategies I will try to use is text to text and text to self because they can be related to the story in multiple ways than compared to other strategies.
A Season on the Mat- Nolan Zavoral
ReplyDeleteThe reading strategy i use most often is the mental imaging. When ever Dan Gable is talking about a move or something someone did during their match, it try to picture it in my mind and run through it, hoping i can remember it and use is myself. I also like to make connections. I like to read about something, and think back to when i used this in real life or saw it in a movie. This book i'm reading talks about certain wrestlers i've seen or read of in other books. I like to think i know what certain places are the wrestlers are going or certain people they talk about in the book.
The Hangman's Daughter by: Sharyn Mccrumb
ReplyDeleteput them all together and then explain all of the notes that we wrote. Also put hem together and read them. Learn how to do and make stradagies and maybe it will help you understand it better.
I am reading The Summer of Skinny Dipping by Amanda Howells.
ReplyDeleteOne reading strategy that I know I'm going to use throughout the rest of the year is visualizing. When I read a book, it's easier to understand when I am able to picture in my head what's going on. It's sometimes better for me to picture places or people I know or have seen before. That makes it a lot simpler when I'm reading the book.
I also am going to use making connections when I'm reading. It will help me connect the story to my own life and things I already know. Connecting will give me a better understanding of what I'm reading.
Gym Candy Carl Deuker
ReplyDeletei will try to make more mental pictures while i read so i can understand the book better.
Saving Private Ryan
ReplyDeleteMax Allan Collins
When I read a book, I make inferences about things in the book all the time. I also reread the section of the book to try and understand what exactly I am reading.
Stiff By: Mary Roach
ReplyDeleteThe first reading strategy I thought would be able to help me was determining importance. By being able to sift through all the information and find what is really important would be beneficial because then I wouldn’t have to spend as much time trying to understand things that are not significant. I could just focus on the crucial parts. The second reading strategy I think will help me better understand my reading is creating mental images. Even in a class that I wouldn’t normally think to make a picture I will. For example, in Chemistry if a reading doesn’t make sense I can break it down by drawing pictures.
Silverfin By Charles Higson
ReplyDeleteI will use them to understand what I read and how to figure out what stuff means that I read. The best way is to question what you read!
I'm reading Divergent by Veronica Roth. Two of the strategies I learned about were determining importance and drawing inferences. I learned that determining importance is finding the main points in a text. I will use this strategy in US History this year to fill out study guides. By paying special attention to words that stand out in the reading I can cut down on the time it takes to do homework. I will also use this strategy to read the questions first in any standardized test. This way I can skim for the necessary information. The strategy drawing inferences helps you to connect what you know with what you don't know. I will use this to read between the lines and make connections in my research papers. I will try to answer deeper questions not just the surface questions.
ReplyDeleteDouble Exposure By Michael Lister
ReplyDeleteThe two reading strategies that really stood out to me were, drawing inferences, and visualization. I think I can use inferences the best in the future during US history vocabulary tests by using context clues around the word that will allow me to best infer what the correct definition is. Also, by using visualization in chemistry will enable me to better understand chemical and physically changes. Mrs. Berda uses many labs to illustrate a visual of whatever we are learning. This strategy will also help me in many other classes because I am a student that learns much better if I see it
The Sacred Acre by Mark Tabb
ReplyDeleteI will use the rereading and asking questions. Rereading will help me to better my understanding of what i have read. Also asking myself questions to think about what I have already read. Both are things i can do to make my reading easier.
Extras by Scott Westerfeld
ReplyDeleteI think I will use the fix-up strategies. I find myself lost a lot, so it would help to get back on track and figure out what is going on. I will also use the questioning strategy. I find myself naturally using it as I read now.
Walk Two Moons
ReplyDeleteBy: Sharon Creech
In the book I am reading I would do vocabulary look up. In Walk Two Moons there is a lot of new vocabulary that I haven't seen.
Countdown by Deborah Wiles
ReplyDeleteI will use Creating Mental Images when I read long stories on tests. This will help me by using images in order to "see" what I am reading, thus understanding through visualization. I will also use Making Inferences. In World History the textbook can leave out information; I will need to come to some sort of conclusion based on what I have already read.
Haunted Sister
ReplyDeleteBy Lael Littke
The two strategies that are most helpful to me that I use are questioning and creating mental images. When I read my book, I ask a lot of questions based on what I just read. They are usually answered later in the story or they are sometimes implied in the reading. I use mental images while I read also. While I'm reading I see the story in my head like a movie, and it helps me understand the book better.
Dreamland
ReplyDeleteBy: Sarah Dessen
Reread is one of the strategies i will use when reading. I struggle with understanding what I read sometimes, so rereading will easily increase my level of understanding. Another strategy will be visualizing, it is helpful to picture what I'm reading. Also I can remember setting and small details better.
The Last Thing I Remember by Andrew Klavan
ReplyDeleteI will use questioning to understand what certain phrases or sentences are trying to tell me. This will put me on the look out for my questions making me more likely to understand the book. I will also use mental images to help me see what is going on in the story. A picture is worth a thousand words really applies to understanding the reading.
Safe Haven
ReplyDeleteNicholas Sparks
I will use questioning and mental imaging. While reading I find both of these useful, especially when reading something that is hard to understand. Questioning yourself as you read along helps to fully understand what is being read and to stay interested. Using mental images also helps to stay focused on what is being read. As I read I feel that it is more exciting to be able to picture what is happening.
Revelation by Drew Karpyshyn
ReplyDeleteI will reread what I read like vocabulary, because the more I read it the more I remember. I will also infer things. Because that will give me a better idea as to what is happening in the story.
More Good Old Stuff By: John D. MacDonald
ReplyDeleteThe two reading strategies I liked best were visualizing and questioning. I used them both today. The story I read was about murder. There were so many details about what everything looked like including the people, the places, the weapons, and the results. It was much easier to understand-as well as more entertaining-when I pictured it all in my head. I also questioned the text. Why would you want to kill so many people? Wouldn't the police find out? Will she get caught? Some of these questions still have no answers. Questioning really built the suspense, and made me wonder.
Danger Zone by David Klass
ReplyDeleteI will use asking questions because when you read something and you don't really understand it, it helps you go back and ask questions about what you just read. I already sort of ask questions but I am going to use it a lot more when reading my book because it will help me understand it better.
Streams of Babel
ReplyDeleteBy Carol Plum-Ucci
It try connecting to the story and seeing how he and I are alike. This helps me understand the story more and brings more of my attention. I also ask questions to understand what and why something happened.
Can't Hear you Listening by Hadley Irwin
ReplyDeleteI have made connections and asked questions and it has helped me make sense of this easier. When Tracy is gearing up to write a huge paper I know how she feels because I have one coming up as well. When Tracy has to go on a weekend trip with her father I asked myself what I would do and I thought of the situation differently. But that just makes the reading more interesting and keeps my attention.
Moneyball by Michael Lewis
ReplyDeleteA reading strategy that I will use is visualizing. I can visualize the setting of the book and the characters. This will help me to understand the book more, because I can picture what is happening. It will also help to keep me interested in a reading that is boring, because by visualizing what is happening my mind will stay concentrated on the reading.
Change of Heart by: Jodi Picoult
ReplyDeleteTwo of the reading strategies I learned were creating mental pictures and determining importance. I will use these the rest of the year when reading in this class, visualizing the story as I read and what is happening in the book. I will use determining importance by reading books a chapter at a time and deciding what is important in that section. These will help me to better understand the book I am reading.
Brian's Winter by Gary Paulsen
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion the best reading strategy is determining importance. If you can separate what is important from what isn't than you can understand the main idea of what you are reading.
I am reading Their Finest Hour by Winston Churchill
ReplyDeleteTwo of the strategies that I will try to use is the visitation method of remembering things, and rereading things that I don't understand. I often turn the book back to where a character was introduce to remember what they looked like. I think that I can use this for the transcendentalism paper as well by visually feeling what they mean.
The Pact by: Jodi Picoult
ReplyDeleteI will ask questions when i am reading. If I ask questions when reading it will help me gain a better understanding of everything. It will also help keep me more involved in the reading. I will also use visualization when I am reading. Visualizing what is happening will help me stay focused.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
ReplyDeleteOne strategy I plan on using is using pictures. Everything is clearer when you can picture it in your head, whether it's a battle in history or a chemical formula in Chemistry. A strategy that I would like to improve on is questioning. There are always parts that I don't understand or want to know more about, but rarely do I do something about. If I could pick out one thing in each lesson that I want to understand, I think it would improve my understanding overall.
The Night of the Living Dummy by R.L. Stine
ReplyDeleteI can use visualization to help me remember stuff when I am reading or just trying to learn vocabulary. It will make it easier to remember what something means if I have a picture in my mind to go along with it.
The Sacred Acre By: Mark Tabb
ReplyDeleteThe two reading strategies that I think will help me in the future are determining importance and visualizing. I think determining importance will help me when I am reading in U.S. History so I just pick out the main ideas. And visualizing will help me when I am reading books I may not understand, if I visualize that may help me understand the book better.
Eagle Strike By: Anthony Horowitz
ReplyDeleteUsing Images when I need to study fora a spanish quiz or History vocabulary Quiz. If I put pictures, or think in my head of a picture, that reassembles or shows what the word means. This could help me remember the word, and know its meaning. Also using comparison to other story, ideas, or my self. I will use this to create questions for the next story I read, or to help strategies for an essay. By asking what would I do in there situation, I might then ask why they wouldn't do that. Then in the essay use it as an example.
After Ever After By: Jordan Sonnenblick
ReplyDeleteThe two strategies that I use the most when I read are creating mental images as I read and asking questions about what I just read. Using mental images as I read helps me understand whats going on and I can actually see the people in the book doing what they do. Also After a couple paragraphs I stop and ask myself some questions so that I get a better idea of whats going on. If I don't stop and think about what I read sometimes it all goes over my head and I don't remember anything that happened or don't understand it.
Club Dead by Charlaine Harris
ReplyDeleteTwo reading strategies I would use are Vocab look up and Visual pictures. I use these strategies when I am reading in class by trying to picture what the author is trying to describe and by looking up words they might have used that I don’t know. I can use mental pictures in class also to help link pictures to words to make it easier to remember them.
Fallout by Ellen Hopkins
ReplyDeleteThe two main strategies that I will use when I'm reading are making connections and visualizing. By making connections from what I'm reading to my own experiences, I can better understand what's going on in the reading. Visualizing is helpful because I can create mental pictures in my head to interpret things more easily.
Vampire Kiss
ReplyDeleteBy: Richelle Mead
Ashley G
Visualization and thinking and comprehending.
These two strategies are good for using in this book. You can visualize a lot in this book, such as the Strigoli being portraid by the Moroi guardians, to test the fledgling vampires about to graduate. To read this IS to comprehend this book. This book is wonderful, so much questions to answer in your own head, such as... "How is he dead but yet he is sitting right here in front of my face with that same solemn face he had on when we fought the striogi?" This question could be answered as many possibilities, he could be a ghost or a spirit, a fluke or an a figment of Rose's imagination. This book is full of stuff you could use for all strategies!! Sweetness! =)