Comprehension Strategies and Instruction Specialist

Before you can truly improve your reading skills, you need to understand what happens in good readers’ minds while they read. You may even do these things already. You just don’t know it…yet. Good readers have developed good habits when they read. We call these habits strategies. Strategies help readers understand, connect to, and determine the importance of what they are reading. They also visualize, ask questions about, and read between the lines of what they read

“Reading” the clues of written text “Citing evidence” is the only form of proof that is accepted!

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“Intellectually Stimulating Inquiries” also known as any questions will be asked of you as the “Investigator” and you will have to hunt for the evidence embedded in the “written crime scene” AKA… the article or book. Evidence found must be submitted in written format… Evidence can take the form of… Pictures, graphs, inferences, written text and page #

Have your proof ready before you encounter the…

Lotus seed

Why is the Lotus seed so important to Ba Why is the Lotus seed so important to Ba? What “evidence” in the story make you feel that way?

Why is it surprising that the lotus seed blooms again after all these years?

How do you think the girl will explain the importance of the lotus seed when it is time for her to pass it on to her children?

Something to remember me by

Why was the grand mother afraid she would forget her granddaughter?

What do you think the granddaughter noticed when she looked in the mirror at the end of the story?