Projectable Journey's Book Strategy Grade 2 Unit 1
Projectable Journey's Book Strategy Grade 2 Unit 1
Projectable Journey's Book Strategy Grade 2 Unit 1
Phonics/Decoding Strategy
What can you do when you come to a word you don’t know?
1. Look carefully at the word.
4. Ask yourself:
• Is it a word I know?
• Does it make sense in what I am reading?
Phonics/Decoding Strategy
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Projectable S2
Infer/Predict Strategy
Use clues to figure out what the author does not tell you. This is called
making an inference.
Use these clues and what you know to guess what will happen next. This
is called making a prediction.
Infer/Predict Strategy
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Projectable S3
Monitor/Clarify Strategy
When you monitor what you read, you make sure it makes sense. If you
do not understand something, you should clarify, or figure out, the part
that does not make sense. Pick one of these strategies to help you:
• Use what you know.
• Make a picture in your mind.
• Reread part of the text.
• Read ahead.
• Ask questions.
• Look for clues.
Monitor/Clarify Strategy
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Projectable S4
Visualize Strategy
When you visualize, you make pictures in your mind as you read. Use
the words to help you form pictures. You can make pictures in your mind
of people, places, things, and actions. Ask:
• What does it look like?
• How big or small is it?
• What color is it?
• What is it doing?
• How fast or slow is it?
• Where is it?
Making pictures in your mind will help you understand and remember
the text.
Visualize Strategy
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Projectable S5
Question Strategy
Ask yourself questions as you read.
Question Words
• What does the author mean here?
Use these words
• What does this word mean? to help you ask
• Who or what is this about? questions:
• Why did this happen? Who?
• How does this work? What?
• What is the main idea? When?
Where?
Look for the answers to your questions to be Why?
sure you understand what you read. How?
Question Strategy
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Projectable S6
Summarize Strategy
When you summarize a text, you tell the important ideas in your own
words. Tell the important ideas in an order that makes sense. Do not
change the meaning of the text. A summary can be as short as one or
two sentences.
In stories, explain
• who the main character is.
• where the story takes place.
• the problem that the main character has.
• the most important events.
• how the problem is solved.
Summarize Strategy
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Projectable S7
Analyze/Evaluate Strategy
When you analyze and evaluate a text, think carefully about text details.
Then decide what is important.
1. Think about the text and the author.
Analyze/Evaluate Strategy
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Projectable S8
Vocabulary Strategy
What can you do when you do not know the meaning of a word?
1. Look around the word for clues.
• Look in the sentence.
• Reread the sentences before the word.
• Read the sentences after the word.
Vocabulary Strategy
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