Good Readers Make Connections Predict/Infer Ask Questions Monitor Summarize/Synthesize Evaluate

Summarize/Synthesize Summarizing Skim and reread to prepare to retell and summarize Retell your favorite part Retell in order Shorten your retelling What were the most important parts? Use a graphic organizer to help you. What can you leave out.

Summarize/Synthesize Synthesize Beyond retelling –What did the author want you to learn? –What was the theme of the retelling? –How have your ideas, thoughts and feelings about the characters, ideas, or problems changed during the reading? –What will you remember and take with you?

Evaluate When are we doing this? –ALWAYS, from the time we pick up a book until even after we are done reading it.