1. The Big 6 Reading Strategies
Making connections
Visualizing
Inferring
Synthesizing
Questioning
Determining Importance

2. Making Connections Like forming a bridge from the new to the known.
When we make connections, we use our personal experience to enhance understanding.
Schema: refers to the amount of knowledge we bring to a book.
We make 3 kinds of connections when we read:
Text to self (T-S): relating reading to our own lives.
Text to Text (T-T): Connections made between different
Text to World (T-W): Connections made between the text and bigger world issues.