Anticipate Meaning
Good readers use their prior experiences and information from text to make predictions and speculations.
Become Lifelong Readers
By being in the continued presences of reading and writing with parents, teachers and schoolmates, good readers develop lifelong literacy habits
Choose Their Own Reading Material
From the very early stages, good readers select a variety of books and literature.
Do Not Read Every Word or Letter
The more the mind works, the less hard the eyes have to work as good readers focus on the larger more meaningful chunks of text.
Elaborate on Important Parts of the Text
Good readers generate elaborations or embellishments during reading. This instills grater comprehension, recall and use of the material read.
Focus on Fluency by Reading
One of the best ways good readers become fluent is by wide reading.
Get Books
Good readers go where the books are. They use the library, brose in bookstore, borrow books from friends and give then as gifts.
Have a Purpose for Reading
Good readers know that reading can serve many purposes. Reading can be informational, enjoyable, enriching and a useful tool in solving problems.
Image when They Read
To facilitate comprehension, good readers make mental pictures as they read.
Just Skim Sometimes and Read Slowly Other Times
Good readers shift speeds depending on their purpose and the type of book they are reading.
Know About Their Own Mental Skills
Good readers continuously appraise and self monitor their comprehension as they are reading. They are aware of what they know, what they want to know and how to do that
Listen & Enjoy Stories & Books Being Read Aloud
. An important factor in helping build the background for becoming a good reader is reading aloud to students of all ages.
Make Personal Connections
Good readers make links and applications between literature and their own lives.
Negotiate Meaning by Integrating a Number of Cues or Sources of Information
Good readers use and cross-check four types of cues : their knowledge of the world; oral language (what sounds right); work meanings; visual information in the text (letter/sound association).
Often Self Correct
Good readers use monitoring and problem solving strategies such as skipping unknown words, rereading, reading ahead and using outside sources.
Paraphrase Periodically
While reading, good readers put their own words into the gist of what they’ve been reading.
Question
Good readers ask questions and then read to seek the answers.
Respond to Literature
Good readers gradually learn to make internal responses and personal reflections to literature by making external responses (reconstructions, retelling and drawings).
Share with Others
God readers are always joining together to discuss and share what they are reading with others. Book habits are acquired naturally as the result of these interactions.
Take Time to Read, Read, Read
Logging lots of reading mileage, good readers take advantage of many opportunities in and out of class to read.
Use Prior Knowledge
Good readers use their background, knowledge, experiences and knowledge of the world to make inferences, think critically, relate new discoveries to old knowledge and construct meaning from the text.
Validate Predictions
Good readers verify their predictions as they read. Comprehension equals confirmed predictions.
Engaging in writing as it relates to reading is a good way for readers to enhance both reading and writing abilities.ite
Expect Reading to Make Sense
As a priority, good readers have a meaning orientation to print, always seeking to make sense when they read.
Yearn to Read
Always having a book and choosing to engage in reading during leisure time is a hallmark of a good reader.
Zero in on Learning Strategies When They Need Them
As they need strategies and skills to communicate with an author, good readers learn them in the context of reading.
