English 9 Class Notes
Objectives: Freshmen 1) identified and explained various reading strategies, and 2) read independently for a sustained period.
Freshmen, today we talked about reading: what we read, how we read, how we overcome obstacles when we read, et cetera. Among the various ideas were the following six were broad strategies that many of us seemed to agree were useful:
- Making connections with a text from our experiences,
- Asking questions of a text as we read,
- Clarifying ideas presented in texts as we read,
- Regularly summarizing material as we finish sections,
- Evaluating events and thinking beyond the basics while we read,
- Making predictions about what’s to come in the texts we’re reading.
This is a great start to what’ll become active reading practice in class. We’ll begin to put these to use Monday. Deliberately thinking about these as you engage text will be awkward at first, and may be for some time, but once you get the hang it, using these reading strategies will become second nature to those who don’t use them yet and even easier for those who already use them
Remember to bring your textbooks on Monday along with your independent reading book.
Enjoy your weekend.
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