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12 Step Reading Strategy

Step 1 Ask for a Dictionary


and Scratch Paper

- just in

case you need them later


-Use your dictionary to look up any words that you
dont know
-Ask for scratch paper just in case you run out of
room in the test booklet to draw your strategy

Step 2 Preview
(title/pictures) and Number
paragraphs and the questions.

the reading
the

-Get an idea of what you are reading and why.

Step 3 Decide on the Genre


(Expository or Narrative)

-Consider the characteristics of each


-Write the Genre in the top right hand corner
Narrative (Fictional)
Expository (Non-Fictional)
Usually in the form
Explains Factual
of a story (sometimes
Information
a story about a
Real Dates
person)
Real People
Can be a poem
Graphs
May have real names
Charts
of known
Timeline
people/individuals
All information can
May include some
be proven to be
historical facts but
true/real facts
has fictional
Evidence
elements too
Realistic events
Research information
Possible everyday life
events
Futuristic but has
fictional details

Step 4 Choose your STRATEGY


and do the

Setup

-draw your strategy and label it but dont try to


write in your responses
Narrative:
Strategy 1: the Who Wanted But So Then + Summary hand
with Mood and Point of View
Expository
Strategy 1: 5W hand + Summary with Authors Purpose,
Pics, Sentence Structure

Step 5 Read

the ENTIRE

text without stopping!

Step 6 Re- Read


ENTIRE text for information

the

and

do

Stop

and Jots
-Stop and Jots should consist of the
important/significant information within the text

Step 7 Complete your

Strategy

-Fill in your responses to each label of the


appropriate strategy

Step 8 Review

the question

-Rewrite it in your own words if you need to

but do

not change the context of the question

-Do not try to answer it yet, only read it

Step 9 Think
and Eliminate

about the question


the 2 distracters in

the answers

-Think about what they are asking you to do


-Now eliminate the two distracters (the silly answers
that have nothing to do with the text or information
that was never said in the text)

Step 10 Give your ANSWER by


using the Strategy that you chose in Step 3

Step 11

Do a

SELF CHECK

placing the
or a
number of the question.

by

next to the

-the check plus means that you are sure about your
answer
-a star means that you unsure and you need to go
back and review this question and answer

Step 12 Review all of the STARS


to change your answer choice, if
needed, and to make sure that you have the
correct answer.

Reading Strategies

Narrative:

Strategy 1:

the Who
Wanted But So Then +
Summary hand with Mood and
Point of View

Expository
Strategy 1:

5W hand +
Summary with Authors
Purpose, Pics, Sentence
Structure

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