Building Academic Reading Skills-SQPRS

SQP2RS “Squeepers”

Building Academic Reading Skills The make-up of any classroom usually includes a wide variety of student reading abilities. You work hard to make sure everyone learns! For some students, grade level materials is boring, while for others, that same material is incomprehensible. Reading is an internal process. Sometimes it is difficult to tell which students are struggling or which students are succeeding unless they have some sort of “output” activity after each reading task. This is one activity that gives students the support they need before, during and after reading in order to successfully meet the academic goal for each reading task.

What is SQP2RS? SQP2RS stands for survey, question, predict, read, respond and summarize. In this activity, students use cognitive and metacognitive strategies to process non fiction text. The step by step process outlined in the following slides requires students to pay attentions to text features as well as their own thinking process. As they do this, they increase their ability to comprehend academic language in text.

Directions: ● Survey: Students scan the visuals, headings, and other text features.

Directions: ● Question: Students write questions they think might be answered when they read the text.

Reading with Your Fingers Directions: Questions that may be answered ● Predict: Students write by reading text. 1. What do the dots mean? predictions about what they might learn while 2. How can I read with my reading. fingers? Predictions: I think I will learn about...

Directions: Read: Students read the Text

Reading with Your Fingers Directions: Respond: Students revisit their Questions that may be answered questions and record any by reading text. answers they discovered while reading. Students also think 1. What do the dots mean? about the strategies they used The dots stand for each letter to help them understand what of the alphabet. they read. Teachers can also provide a specific stem for 2. How can I read with my response time as well. fingers? Predictions: I think I will learn about...

Reading with Your Fingers Directions: Summarize: Students restate Questions that may be answered key concepts either individually by reading text. or in groups. 1. What do the dots mean? The dots stand for each letter of the alphabet. 2. How can I read with my fingers? Predictions: I think I will learn about… Key Concepts: People that can’t see use the Braille alphabet, which are little bumps.