Thinking About What We Read

Ways of Thinking

Systems of Strategic Actions for Processing Written Texts

Thinking

Within

The Text

Solving Words

Using a range of strategies to take words apart and understand what words mean.

Monitoring and Correcting

Checking whether reading sounds right, looks right, and makes sense, and working to solve problems.

Searching for and Using Information

Searching for and using all kinds of information in a text.

Summarizing

Putting together and remembering important information and disregarding irrelevant information while reading.

Maintaining Fluency

Integrating sources of information in a smoothly operating process that results in expressive, phrased reading.

Adjusting

Reading in different ways as appropriate to the purpose for reading and type of text.

Thinking

Beyond

The Text

Predicting

Using what is known to think about what will follow while reading continuous text.

Making Connections:

·            Personal

·              World

·             Text

Searching for and using connections to knowledge gained through personal experiences, learning about the world, and reading other texts.

Inferring

Going beyond the literal meaning of a text to think about what is not stated but is implied by the writer.

Synthesizing

Putting together information from the text and from the reader’s own background knowledge in order to create new understandings.

Thinking

About

The Text

Analyzing

Examining elements of a text to know more about how it is constructed and noticing aspects of the writer’s craft.

Critiquing

Evaluating a text based on the reader’s personal, world, or text knowledge and thinking critically about the ideas in it.

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Guided Reading Strategies 

Below are listed some questions teachers may ask to assist their students in using the strategies good readers use…  These are the strategies the authors of Mosaic of Thought suggest good readers use!

A Good Reader Uses Schema

- When you read that story, did it remind you of anything you know about? 
- Why did it remind you of that event? 
- If it did remind you of something in your life, did it remind you of any experiences or things that have happened?
- Are there things you know about or things in your life that help you to understand this book? 
- How does that help?

A Good Reader Infers

- Can you predict what is going to happen? 
- Why did you make that prediction? 
- Can you identify something in the book that helped you to make that prediction?
- What did the author mean by ____? 
- What in the story helped you know that?

A Good Reader Asks questions

- What did you wonder about (or question) while you were reading this story?
- What questions do you have about this book now?

A Good Reader Determines what is important in text


- Did you have any problems while you were reading this story? 
- What could you do to solve the problem?
- When you are reading other stories, what kinds of problems do you have? 
- What are all the ways you solve the problems?

A Good Reader Visualizes and creates mental images while reading

- When you were reading this, did you make any pictures in your head? 
- Tell me everything you can about that picture or image you made while you were reading just now. 
- Do the pictures that you just told me about help you to understand the story?
- How?

A Good Reader Synthesizes

- If you were to tell another person about the story you just read, and you could only use a few sentences, what would you tell them?
- Think about what you have just said about the story. 
- What do you understand now that you didn’t understand before?