1. Visualize Make a Movie / Visualize
What do you picture in your mind while you are reading?
If you are able to make a movie then = you are understanding
If you do not then STOP and go back to your reading
Visualize
WHEN????
The author uses words that make you see, hear, taste, feel or smell

2. Connect This reading reminds me of... What does this remind you of?
Another book I have read:
Text to Text
Something in the real world:
Text to World
Something that has happened in my life:
Text to Self

3. I predict ________will happen because....
Predictions
What do you predict will happen?
Based on what your reading,
predict or guess
what will
happen next.
I predict ________will happen because....

4. How can I summarize this story?
Keep what's important
The important details.
Get rid of what is not
important
“Put it through the strainer”
My summary is..

5. Making Inferences * Examples from the text +
What clues make you think that?
* Examples from the text +
*Your past experience, knowledge, or logic =
Inference
I think that...because

6. * Helps readers to clarify the text before, during, and after reading.
Questioning
What are your questions?
Talk to your book, ask
It questions!
* Helps readers to clarify the text before, during, and after reading.
* Ask yourself questions such as...
* I wonder if...?
* Why did...?
*Did...? *How Come...?