Reading Strategy Practice: Wake Up Your Brain

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Hello readers! Today I’d like to teach a new strategy for staying engaged. This one is called “Wake Up Your Brain!”

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Wake Up Your Brain: Discussion

Part of engaging with the book you’re reading is to read the text with a curious mind. It’s like having a conversation with yourself as you’re reading. You can ask and answer questions to push yourself to read on.

For this activity jot down your questions on a post-it, take a picture, and upload it to the discussion board. On your sticky note write fiction or nonfiction depending on the type of book you’re reading. Once everyone has them posted we should have a collection of great questions we can ask ourselves when reading.

Directions:

Use this strategy during Independent Reading practice.
Write a couple of questions down.

Assignment

Directions:

During Independent Reading practice, you used the strategy "Wake Up Your Brain."
In the discussion:
- Share the questions that you wrote down.
- Add a sentence about your experience using this strategy.

Example post. Fiction: Wow! What will he do now? Mary. Nonfiction: Are there snakes that have legs and feet? John.

Go to the Next page for your discussion.

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