Guided Reading Strategies to Improve Students - Dr. Stirling ...

Appendix 3: Sentence Stems for Before,During and After ReadingBEFORE READING• I wonder if…• I already know that…• This reminds me of…• This relates to…• Because of the title I think…• The title of this text makes methink of…• I want to answer thesequestions…• I think that I will learn…• I want to know…• I want to know if…• Because of the text, I think…• Because of the pictures, Ithink…• I think the author will say…DURING READING• The message is…• The big idea is…• The author believes…• The author’s view of the worldis…• An important key word in thispassage is…• The idea of this sentence is…• The purpose of this text is to…• The idea that I’m getting is…• I experienced this once when…• If…, then…• I need to listen again to the partwhere…• I need to skim this part tolearn…• I got lost because…• This reminds me of…• I can relate to this because…• I see why…• I bet…• I wonder…• My thinking changed when Iheard, saw, read…• Based on the clues in this text, Ithink the character felt…• In my mind I see, hear, smell,taste, feel…• The important ideas in what Ihear, read and view are…• I can picture…• If this were a movie…AFTER READING• My first reaction was…• What I learned was…• I learned…• This text was about…• The overall message was…• The main idea is…• The most important messageis…• So the point is…• I thought…• I felt…• This could be more effective if…• I do not like… because…• I would add or delete…• This is important and relevantbecause…• I enjoyed…• I really like…• This relates to…• This reminds me of…• I can also see how…• A question that I have is…• I wonder if…• I want to know more about…• I still wonder…36 RESEARCH REPORT: Guided Reading Strategies to Improve Students’ Critical Thinking Skills in Grades Three, Four and Five