1. Reading Strategies

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

3. 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?

4. 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

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

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

7. 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