Hello seventh graders! In class today we learned about the great American author Langston Hughes, and began reading his short story Thank You Ma'am. Your homework was/is to finish reading the story; as you read, incorporate the strategies for reading that we learned in class. As you work through each strategy, please remember to use the margins to write down your thoughts so that you can share them in class. I have listed the six strategies below.
Happy reading!
PREDICT: Figure out what might happen next. You can even write your predictions in the margins
VISUALIZE: Picture the people, places and events in the story.
CONNECT: Connect personally with what you are reading; think of similarities between the characters of the story and the story of your own life.
QUESTION: Ask questions about events in the story- What happened? Why? How do the people involved feel?
CLARIFY: Review your understanding; summarize, identify main idea and theme(s), come to some conclusions about the characters in the story.
EVALUATE: Form opinions about what you read. Do this while you're reading and after you have finished the story.
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