5 Stages to the Reading Process
1. Prereading
- Set Purposes
- Connect to past personal experiences
- Connect to prior literary experiences
- Connect to prior learning
- Connect to thematic units or Special Interests
- Make Predictions
- Preview and browse the text
- Consult the index, glossary, or table of contents
- Identify text features and text structures
- Identify the intended audience
2. Reading
- Make Predicitions
- Apply skills and strategies
- Read Independently; with a partner, using shared reading or guided reading; while listening to the text on audio
- Read the illustrations, charts, and diagrams
- Read text features
- Read the entire text from beginning to end
- Read one or more sections of text to learn specific information
- Take notes
3. Responding
- Respond in a variety of ways:
- Written Response
- Artistic Response
4. Exploring
- Reread and think more deeply about the text
- Make connections with personal experiences
- Make connections with other literary experiences
- Examine the author's craft
- Identify memorable quotes
- Learn new vocabulary words
- Participate in minilessons on reading procedures, concepts, strategies, and skills.
5. Applying
- Construct projects
- Use information in thematic units
- Use information with Big Ideas
- Connect with different literature
- Reflect on personal interpretations
- Value the reading experience
(Tompkins, 2006, 48) 5 Stages to The Reading Process(Taken and modified from Literacy for the 21st Century 4th edition by Gail E. Tompkins)