Good Reader Alphabet
Anticipate meaning
Become lifelong readers
Choose their own reading material
Do not read every word or attend to every letter
Elaborate on important parts of the text
Focus on fluency by reading
Get books
Have a purpose for reading
Image when they read
Just skim sometimes and judiciously read slowly other times
Know about their own mental skills
Listen and enjoy stories and books being read aloud
Make personal connections with reading
Negotiate meaning by integrating a number of cues or sources of information
Often self correct
Paraphrase periodically
Question
Respond to text
Share with others
Take time to read, read, read
Use prior knowledge
Validate predictions
Write
eXpect reading to make sense
Yearn to read
Zero in on learning strategies when they need them
California Reading Association (1993).� What Good Teachers do to Help Literacy Happen.� Costa Mesa, CA:� California Reading Association, Inc.