What Good Readers Do: Seven Steps to Better Reading

This handy flipchart provides an ideal quick review of best practice for teachers and students alike. Designed to help students become more proficient and confident readers, it will guide readers through seven essential strategies and activities for reading successfully in any form:

• Why Read?
• Pre-reading
• During Reading
• Checking Understanding
• Close Reading
• Thinking About Text
• Extending Text

What Good Readers Do helps readers appreciate the importance of frequent reading, introduces and reminds them to use a range of powerful strategies, and teaches them to be more skillful in asking and answering questions about text. The straightforward and easy-to-read format ensures that readers refer to the flipchart again and again.