1. Comprehension
Strategies and Instruction
Specialist

2. Before you can truly improve your reading skills, you need to understand what happens in good readers’ minds while they read. You may even do these things already. You just don’t know it…yet.
Good readers have developed good habits when they read. We call these habits strategies. Strategies help readers understand, connect to, and determine the importance of what they are reading. They also visualize, ask questions about, and read between the lines of what they read

3. “Reading” the clues of written text
“Citing evidence” is the only form of proof that is accepted!

4. S0…

5. “Intellectually Stimulating Inquiries” also known as any questions will be asked of you as the “Investigator” and you will have to hunt for the evidence embedded in the “written crime scene” AKA… the article or book.
Evidence found must be submitted in written format… Evidence can take the form of… Pictures, graphs, inferences, written text and page #

6. Have your proof ready before you encounter the…

7. What do you know about rats? (What do you bring to the written text)

8. 1st or 3rd person…prove it with evidence from the text as you read!

9. NIMH the SETTING (Suspending Disbelief)

10. NIMH the CHARACTERS

11. NIMH the Conflict

12. NIMH the RESOLUTION

13. THEMES in the SECRET OF NIMH

14. Your turn…with your AR… book

15. Your Novel