7th Grade Intervention

Miss Campbell

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Tip of the Week

Reading: Think About It!

I was distracted by... I started to think about... I got stuck when... I was confused/focused today because... One strategy I used to help me read this better was... When I got distracted I tried to refocus myself by... When reading I should... I had a hard time understanding...

Why does/doesn't the character/author... What surprised me most was... I predict that... The main character wants/is... The most interesting events/idea in this book is... I realized... The main conflict/idea in this book is... I found the following quote interesting...

I think _____ because... A good example of _____ is... This was important because... One thing that surprised me was _____ because I always thought... This reminded me of _____ because...

Ask questions of the text, yourself, and the author... Make connections to yourself, other texts, and the world... Use different strategies to achieve and maintain focus while reading... Deteremine ahead of time why you are reading this text and how it should be read... Adjust your strategies as your read to help you understand and enjoy what you read...

Evaluate and decide which of the following best describes your reading performance for the day. Explain why you gave yourseld the score. 1) Excellent - understood information, read actively 2) Successful - understood most of information, tried to use strategies 3) Inconsistent - Use some strategies that didn't help, understood some of information 4) Unsuccessful - did not read actively, did not understand information because...

Develop your own question(s) or prompt(s) that you find helpful when thinking about how or what you read.

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