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Fix-Up Strategies

Fix-Up Strategies. By: Kavia and Erin . What’s the Key for Me to Know?. When you are really into a book, you recognize when you get to a part you don’t understand. It’s the reader’s job to know when the text makes sense and when it doesn’t.

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Fix-Up Strategies

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  1. Fix-Up Strategies By: Kaviaand Erin

  2. What’s the Key for Me to Know? • When you are really into a book, you recognize when you get to a part you don’t understand. • It’s the reader’s job to know when the text makes sense and when it doesn’t. • Good readers stop when there’s a comprehension breakdown, figure out what the problem is and how they can fix it.

  3. Some “Fix-Up” Options • Reading ahead • Raising new questions • Drawing inferences • Making predictions • Figuring out unknown words • Seeking help from an outside source • Stopping to think • Connecting the reader to background knowledge • Trying to get a mental image • Looking at sentence structure • Inspecting pictures and other text features • Reading the author’s note • Writing about the confusing parts • Consciously thinking about the text’s message • Defining the purpose for why we’re reading in the first place

  4. Reading Strategy:Repairing Understanding • Good readers realize that they sometimes may not be understanding what they are reading. They use a variety of “Fix-Up” strategies to make sure they comprehend what they are reading.

  5. Good readers monitor and repair understanding by: • Tracking their thinking through coding, writing, or discussion • Noticing when they lost focus • Stopping and going back to clarify thinking • Rereading to enhance understanding • Reading ahead to clarify thinking • Identifying what is confusing in the text • Matching the problem with the strategy that will best help solve it.

  6. Fixing Comprehension You should apply “Fix-Up” strategies when you get stuck on a word. You should know how to use “Fix-Up” strategies when you get confused.

  7. Resources • The Metacognative strategies booklet, Using “Fix-Up” strategies chapter It was a great help. It told us everything!! The Metacognative strategies booklet is great!!!

  8. Now it’s time to see what you know! You may use your notes to help solve your answers.

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