Reading

= = =   = = ** The Reading Process ** = Step 1: **Prereading**: Students look for information about what are going to be reading. The title of the book in noted, the illustrations are reviewed. Teachers also need to make sure their is not any prior knowledge they need to know as as review any unfamiliar vocabulary. During the prereading, teachers need to help students make productions about the text.

Step 2: **Reading**: This is where the student sit down, get cozy and reads. A teachers job here is to check for comprehension.

Step 3: **Responding**: This is what we do once we have read a piece of literature. Responding is how we process what we have just read. We do this through disution, actions, deep thought. This is the affect that the reading has had on us and our reaction to it. There are two types of responses, personal and creative. Personal is usually oral or written. Creative is shown through activities like readers theatre, music, dance or art.

Step 4: **Exploring or making conections**. Here students get to make connctions to their own lives or exeriances. They compair themselves to the charecters and relate. Students make text to text,text to self or text to world connections.

Step 5: **Applying**: this happens once the student has finished to book. The student is now able to answer questions, provide oral retelling and apply the book to their education or life.