Reading Strategies

PREDICT What will happen next? Read to find out if you were right.

Imagine Visualize: Put yourself there: what would it be like? Characters Settings Situations Put yourself there: what would it be like? Put yourself there: how would you react?

Connect See a similarity between something you read and: An experience you have had or read about A story you have read A person you know A place you have been

Question Ask about things you don’t understand Search for reasons behind events Search for motives behind character actions

Clarify Make interpretations of complex events or symbols Reevaluate what you have written earlier in the log Explain a new insight or understanding

Evaluate Form opinions about: Characters and what they do Quality and effectiveness of writer decisions Explain how you feel, personally, about what you see and experience in the story