Communicating with text

Prewriting

• Researching/Reading
• Developing content/Brainstorming/Generating material
• Thinking
• Assessing audience and purpose
• Planning

Composing/Drafting

• Follow the plan
• Include notes from reading
• Support our thesis statement with specific evidence
• Make meaning with text

Revising/Editing

• All the parts are there: beginning, middle, end
• It’s accurate
• It’s documented
• It’s proofread, spell checked, edited

Understanding text

Pre-reading

• Preview text
• Preview vocabulary
• Establish/predict a purpose
• Connect to what we already know
• Anticipate what we will learn

During reading

• Highlight important information
• Define/understand vocabulary in correct context
• Visualize
• Take notes and annotate
• Make meaning from the text

After reading: synthesis

• Summarize
• Organize information (mapping/outlining)
• Apply
• Use