What Good Readers Do To Help Literacy Happen Good Readers............
A Anticipate meaning; use their prior experience and information from the text to make predictions and speculations.
B Become lifelong readers; by being in the continuyed presence of reading/writing with parents, teachers, schoolmates and friends.
C Choose their own reading material; from the very early stages, good readers select a variety of books and types of literature to read.
D Do not read every word or attend to every letter; the more the mind works, the less the eyes have to work as good readers focus on larger chunks of text.
E Eleborate on important parts of text; good readers generate elaborations or embellishments during reading. This facilitates greater comprehension, and recall.
F Focus on fluency by reading; one of the best ways good readers become fluent is by reading.
G Get books; good readers go to where books are. They use libraries, browse in bookstores, borrow books and give books as gifts.
H Have a purpose for reading; good readers know that reading can be informative, enjoyable, enriching, and a useful tool to solve a variety of problems.
I Image when read; to facilitate comprehension, good readers make mental pictures when they read.
J Just skim sometimes and judiciously read slowly at other times; good readers shift speeds depending on their purpse and they types of books they are reading.
K Know about their mown mental skills; good readers constantly self monitor their own comprehension as they are reading. they use metacongnition to be aware of what they know, what they need to know, and how to do that.
L Listen to and enjoy stories and books being read aloud; an important factor in helping build the background for becoming a good reader is reading aloud to students of all ages.
M Make personal connections with reading; good readers make links and applications between the literature and their lives.
N Negotiate meaning by integrating a number of cues or sources of information: good readers use and cross check sues; meaning, syntax, and visual information in the text.
O Often self correct; good readers use monitoring and problem solving strategies such as skipping unknown words, rereading, reading ahead, or using an outside source.
P Pharaphrase periodically; during reading, good readers put into their own words the gist of what they are reading.
Q Question: good readers ask questions and then read to seek out answers to these questions.
R Respond to literature; good readers gradually learn to make internal reponses and personal reflections to literature by first making a variety of ecternal responses (retellings, reponses, and discussion help students build ability to think critically on their own)
S Share with others; good readers are always joining together to discuss and share what they are reading with others. Book habits are acquired naturally as a result of these discussions.
T Take time to read, read, read, read
U Use prior knowledge, good readers use their background knowledge of the words to make inferences, think critically, relate new discoveries to old knowledge, and construct mening from text.
V Validate predictions; good readers verify their predictions and they read, comprehension equals confirmed predictions.
W Write; engaging in writing as it related to reading is a routine good readers use to enhance both reading and writing ability.
X Expect reading to make sense; as a priority, good readers have a meaning orientation to print, always seeking to make sense when they read.
Y Yearn to read; always having a book and choosing to engage in reading during leisure time is a hallmark of a good reader.
Z Zero in on learning strategies when they need them; as they need strategies and skills to communicaste with an author, good readers learn them in the context of reading.
A Anticipate meaning; use their prior experience and information from the text to make predictions and speculations.
B Become lifelong readers; by being in the continuyed presence of reading/writing with parents, teachers, schoolmates and friends.
C Choose their own reading material; from the very early stages, good readers select a variety of books and types of literature to read.
D Do not read every word or attend to every letter; the more the mind works, the less the eyes have to work as good readers focus on larger chunks of text.
E Eleborate on important parts of text; good readers generate elaborations or embellishments during reading. This facilitates greater comprehension, and recall.
F Focus on fluency by reading; one of the best ways good readers become fluent is by reading.
G Get books; good readers go to where books are. They use libraries, browse in bookstores, borrow books and give books as gifts.
H Have a purpose for reading; good readers know that reading can be informative, enjoyable, enriching, and a useful tool to solve a variety of problems.
I Image when read; to facilitate comprehension, good readers make mental pictures when they read.
J Just skim sometimes and judiciously read slowly at other times; good readers shift speeds depending on their purpse and they types of books they are reading.
K Know about their mown mental skills; good readers constantly self monitor their own comprehension as they are reading. they use metacongnition to be aware of what they know, what they need to know, and how to do that.
L Listen to and enjoy stories and books being read aloud; an important factor in helping build the background for becoming a good reader is reading aloud to students of all ages.
M Make personal connections with reading; good readers make links and applications between the literature and their lives.
N Negotiate meaning by integrating a number of cues or sources of information: good readers use and cross check sues; meaning, syntax, and visual information in the text.
O Often self correct; good readers use monitoring and problem solving strategies such as skipping unknown words, rereading, reading ahead, or using an outside source.
P Pharaphrase periodically; during reading, good readers put into their own words the gist of what they are reading.
Q Question: good readers ask questions and then read to seek out answers to these questions.
R Respond to literature; good readers gradually learn to make internal reponses and personal reflections to literature by first making a variety of ecternal responses (retellings, reponses, and discussion help students build ability to think critically on their own)
S Share with others; good readers are always joining together to discuss and share what they are reading with others. Book habits are acquired naturally as a result of these discussions.
T Take time to read, read, read, read
U Use prior knowledge, good readers use their background knowledge of the words to make inferences, think critically, relate new discoveries to old knowledge, and construct mening from text.
V Validate predictions; good readers verify their predictions and they read, comprehension equals confirmed predictions.
W Write; engaging in writing as it related to reading is a routine good readers use to enhance both reading and writing ability.
X Expect reading to make sense; as a priority, good readers have a meaning orientation to print, always seeking to make sense when they read.
Y Yearn to read; always having a book and choosing to engage in reading during leisure time is a hallmark of a good reader.
Z Zero in on learning strategies when they need them; as they need strategies and skills to communicaste with an author, good readers learn them in the context of reading.
