During Reading Activities

During reading, strategic readers create a dialogue with the author, striving to reformulate what the author is saying. They check their understanding of the text by paraphrasing the author's words and they monitor it by imagining, inferring, predicting, and confirming. They integrate their new understanding with existing knowledge. They are continually revising their purposes for reading as they read.

Book Punch's text-to-self writing topics and offline graphic organizers and writing prompts (found in each book's lesson plan guides) are useful during reading activities.

While students are reading the book, ask them if they understand what they are reading and whether it makes sense to them.

Read aloud in class to give students' opportunities that model fluent and effective spoken English, build their vocabulary, and increase their awareness of issues in the text. Reading aloud also prepares students for Book Punch's writing activities. Most students are able to listen and comprehend at higher levels than they can read.

Help readers connect to the book and make sense of what they are reading by relating the story to their personal experience in the Book Punch text-to-self section.

Encourage readers to think about what will happen next in the story. Have them begin working on the Evidence & Inference section of Book Punch to pull out relevant details.

Exercise readers' imaginations by asking them to picture and even draw what they are reading.

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