Four Strategies

October 26, 2007

In the Intervention Classroom we are focusing on four strategies for successful readers, as presented in Soar to Success.  

Clarify:  Rereading confusing sections of text and discussing words or ideas that are not clear.

Predict:  Students engage in reading by thinking about what will happen next based off of what was read so far in the text.

Question:  After reading, students ask questions that they can find answers for in the text by using their clarifying strategy.

Summarize:  Students identify the important elements of the text by telling or writing about what they have read.

In class this week students have been using a Story Map to identify the essential parts of the story.  This strategy is used to show comprehension and to demonstrate their understanding of the sequence of events they have read in a narrative.  Students are working on identifying the following things when they are done reading:

• Title
• Setting
• Time
• Place
• Problem
• Events
• One from the beginning
• One from the middle
• One towards the end
• Outcome

Please encourage your child to read at home to support the strategies taught in school.  Thanks!