{"id":413,"date":"2020-03-31T15:26:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T19:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/eldzein\/?p=413"},"modified":"2020-03-31T15:26:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T19:26:06","slug":"reading-strategies-before-you-read-the-book-article-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/eldzein\/2020\/03\/31\/reading-strategies-before-you-read-the-book-article-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Strategies..   before you read the book\/article\/ story&#8230;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"\"><tbody><tr><td>Preview the book before reading: When we preview information (or in this case, the book), we are prepping the brain for the bigger picture of what is going to be read.&nbsp; Teach your children the following steps for preparing their brains to read any book (this is a life-long skill that many adults do naturally):&nbsp;<br><strong>Book Walk:&nbsp;<\/strong>Flip through the pages of the book to look at the pictures, chapters titles, captions, summaries, subheadings, etc.&nbsp; These \u201cwalks\u201d through a text prime the brain and promote the big picture in a reader\u2019s mind.<br><strong>Personal Connections:&nbsp;<\/strong>Ask questions like, \u201cWhat do you already know about this topic, author, or ideas within the book?&nbsp; What do you think the book\/chapter will be about?&nbsp; What do you think you might learn about this topic?\u201d<br><strong>Vocabulary:&nbsp;<\/strong>Define a few, challenging vocabulary words that you notice during the Book Walk.&nbsp; Learning critical words before reading (or even during reading) drastically improves comprehension.&nbsp; Quick tools for definitions:&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">dictionary.com<\/a>;&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/vocabulary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">vocabulary.com<\/a>;<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preview the book before reading: When we preview information (or in this case, the book), we are prepping the brain for the bigger picture of what is going to be read.&nbsp; Teach your children the following steps for preparing their brains to read any book (this is a life-long skill that many adults do naturally):&nbsp;Book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/eldzein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/eldzein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/eldzein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/eldzein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/eldzein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/eldzein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/eldzein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/eldzein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/eldzein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/eldzein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}