☺ Get Help with Your Reading Skills
We will be working on reading and writing strategies throughout the entire year. If you would like to get a jump-start, or if you prefer to work on your own, feel free to follow the links below. I have included links to useful websites; moreover, I have linked handouts that will help you.
Links Online
http://litsite.alaska.edu/workbooks/readingstrategies.html
Handouts
- Different types of reading call for different reading skills
- Checklist of what you should focus on every time you read critically (not just for pleasure)–this link can and will help you on our timed writings in particular
- Bookmarks of what you should focus on when you read critically
- Event (Plot) Map
- Four-square Graphic Organizer to Help You Focus
- How to Make Inferences
- More Help on How to Make Inferences
- Synthesizing Key Concepts in Your Reading
- Taking Notes on Main Ideas
- Another Great Graphic Organizer on Pulling Main Ideas from Text
- Help Learning to Make Text Connections
- Help Decoding Unfamiliar Vocabulary
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