Parents

=Parents:=

The Following are the Seven Habits of a Good Reader:
1. Visualizing: forming mental images or pictures about what they are reading. 2. Questioning: Formulating questions about the text gives readers a purpose for re-reading, reading further or devising an experiment to test their ideas. 3. Making Connections: Helps readers activate prior knowledge and make reading meaningful. 4. Predicting: Readers frequently use clues or information in a text and their own experiences to make predictions about upcoming events or the outcome of events. 5. Inferring: Readers often use clues from the text and their own experiences to make inferences and draw conclusions about the text they are reading. 6. Determining Importance: Readers must decide which terms, topics, ideas, elements or concepts are the most important to the overall text. 7. Synthesizing: Synthesizing or assimilating new information is the key to learning the content presented in the text.

(Taken from ECI 306 Dr. Akers )

These are the 7 habits I would like to establish for all of my students in the classroom so they can learn the science content and become better readers. As a parent you can also work with your students on these 7 habits at home by reading through texts with them and asking questions and working on visualization skills. Have your child tell you what they see when they read and what they predict will happen in the texts.