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Connecting M&M's and Reading: Strategies for Making Meaning

This guide explores the connection between reading comprehension and critical thinking through engaging strategies likened to M&M's. Just as M&M's offer a colorful array of flavors, effective reading requires a blend of skills like visualizing, connecting, questioning, inferring, and synthesizing. Readers are encouraged to engage in internal dialogue, monitor comprehension, and apply various strategies to deepen understanding. By focusing on what the text conveys and how it resonates personally, readers become adept at making meaning from their reading experiences.

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Connecting M&M's and Reading: Strategies for Making Meaning

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  1. M&M’s & Reading… What’s the Connection?

  2. M & M = MAKING MEANING • Reading requires thinking • Thinking = internal dialogue • Internal dialogue = thinking in your head

  3. MAKING MEANING •Text – What the author is telling me •Thinking – What’s going on in my head Text + Thinking = Making Meaning

  4. GOOD READERS MONITOR FOR COMPREHENSION • As I read…… I’m thinking...I’m noticing …I’m recalling….I’m wondering … I’m seeing …I’m feeling…I’m connecting... I'm predicting • Does what I’m reading make sense? •Do I understand what I am reading? •What do I do if I don’t understand? •What do I do if it doesn’t make sense?

  5. GOOD READERS MONITOR FOR COMPREHENSION • What do I predict might happen next? • What does the author want me to know (main ideas, reason for writing) • Can I re-tell what I read, explain it, summarize it and draw conclusions?

  6. STRATEGIES FOR GOOD READERS • Visualize • Connect • Question • Infer • Determine main ideas/themes • Synthesize

  7. DO YOU THINK THIS ARTIST HAD A STRATEGY?

  8. VISUALIZING • As I read, I can create pictures in my mind.. • I’m picturing… • •I can imagine… • •I can feel… • •I can taste… • •I can touch… • •I can hear… • •I can smell… I

  9. CONNECTING I use what I already know to understand what I read. • It reminds me of … because… • It reminds me of the time I ... because . • It reminds me of when I read….because • It reminds me of something I heard about because ... • I have a connection!

  10. QUESTIONING • I wonder … • How could … • What if … • Why … • I don’t understand… • It confused me ….. • Who, what why, when, how….

  11. INFERRINGWhen the author doesn't answer my questions I must infer... • Maybe... • I think... • It could be ... • It's because... • Perhaps... • It might mean ... • I'm guessing...

  12. SYNTHESIZING I combine what I already know with new information I read, to understand the text. • Now I get it!... • This makes me think of... • I learned that ... • I understand this because...

  13. DETERMING MAIN IDEAS I understand the main ideas of the text and what the author's message is. • The text was mainly about... • The author is trying to tell us that... • I learned... • The important details were...

  14. THINKTHINKTHINKTHINK

  15. WHAT’S NEXT? • Small Group Reading Comprehension Packets • iPad Reading Comprehension Games • http://www.funenglishgames.com/readinggames/dictionary.html • Maps and directions • Using a dictionary • Non-fiction books • http://www.pspb.org/blueribbon/interactives.html • Questioning Cube • Making Connections • Detectives Notebook

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