Cris tovani fix-up strategies

As a first year teacher,  I was really overwhelmed by the amount of content that I was expected to cover (especially since many of my students were struggling readers, and since we didn’t have enough copies of texts for the students to take home).

  In 45 minutes, we had to get through the text and learn and practice a new skill.

Fix-Up Strategies: Make a Connection—text-to-text, text-to-self, text-to-world; Make a Prediction; Stop and Think; Ask a Question; Write about what you've read.

Cris Tovani guides us through 6Ts (Topic, Target, Task, Text, Time and Tending) as she tells the story of her 1st virtual literacy workshop.

Read to finish instead of reading to understand.

Having used some of these strategies that Tovani recommends we use to help improve our struggling readers' reading skills, I would like to say.

I set off with my highlighters, started posters with reading fix-up strategies and my students and I continued to make amazing improvement over.

 In the beginning of the year, I found myself speeding through the content so we don’t fall behind but although we were up to date with the content, I knew that  the majority of my students were feeling lost, and few were the ones who were even comprehending the basic plot line of the texts we were reading.

When I started working with the special education teacher in my school, he introduced me to the  fix-up strategies that Tovani discusses in chapter 1. He then explained that it was really useful for the students to see us using these strategies when we read, and he also explained that these strategies really