1. The 7 Habits of Good Readers

2. Monitoring for Meaning Wait Im confused… Did I understand what I just read?

3. Questioning We dont necessarily find the right answer right away.

4. Determining Importance Is this information important?

5. Making Inferences The author doesnt say __________, but I know __________ because _______.

6. Creating Mental Images These words create a picture in my mind.

7. Activating Schema Making connections –Text-to-Self How the text relates to us –Text-to-Text How the text relates to another text –Text-to-World How the text relates to the world we live in

8. Synthesizing Juggle all of the habits –Link this information with that information in order to see the whole picture