Readers' Workshop
Thinking Strategies
1. Monitoring for meaning (metacognition) - thoughtful readers know when they don't understand what they're reading, and they use appropriate strategies to fix up their comprehension
2. Schema and making connections - thoughtful readers activate prior knowledge and make connections before, during, and after reading 3. Questioning - thoughtful readers generate thoughtful questions before, during, and after reading 4. Inferring - thoughtful readers use their prior knowledge to make predictions, draw conclusions, and interpret characters' motives or thoughts 5. Determining importance - thoughtful readers strain information as they read to keep the most useful and important information 6. Visualizing - thoughtful readers use their five sense to create mental images 7. Synthesizing - thoughtful readers continually revise their response to reading based on new learning |
These thinking strategies are like "cogs" in our brains! When one starts moving, the rest follow. Sometimes, you'll hear us refer to this type of thinking as "cog thinking." |