Think2Read

Predicting

What happens next?

• Use titles, pictures, experience to make predictions
• Ask group to discuss your predictions
• Ask group to read first part of text (approximately one or two paragraphs)

Clarifying

What does it mean?

• Ask the group to identify words and phrases that are not understood
• Ask group to help by using context clues and picture clues
• If word remains unknown, teacher clarifies

Questioning

What questions could I ask?

• Ask questions: Literal, Inferential, Evaluative
• Choose children to answer
• Ask children to answer question and discuss answer
• Ask children to discuss question type

Summarising

What have we read?

• Summarise what group has read
• Be brief and cover main points only
• Ask group to change or add to your summary or necessary

Predicting

Choose another leader (Repeat Questioning. Continue cyle ofo questioning, clarifying, summarising)

• Predict what you think the next sentence will be about
• Use last sentence, headings, pictures, own experiences
• Discuss predictions with group

Copyright 2003 Donna Thomson