1. Imagine this background with a red line running through it.

2. What do you see ?

4. Reciprocal Reading Strategies This is what good readers do. Questioning- Ask what you don't know, what is it about the text that is important to know in order to understand the meaning ?Questioning- Ask what you don't know, what is it about the text that is important to know in order to understand the meaning ? Clarifying- Emphasizes that the goal is to construct meaning from new material. Students become aware of unfamiliar concepts.Clarifying- Emphasizes that the goal is to construct meaning from new material. Students become aware of unfamiliar concepts. Predicting- Students infer through background information. What will happen next? Through this process students will build there interest and curiosity.Predicting- Students infer through background information. What will happen next? Through this process students will build there interest and curiosity. Summarizing- To know what the most important information is and be able to communicate it in a understandable fashion.Summarizing- To know what the most important information is and be able to communicate it in a understandable fashion.

5. In order to be able to summarize you must accomplish two things. 1. Comprehend the text that you are reading, this means that you must understand the meaning of the words that appear in the text. Context clues is also a good strategy to find the word meaning behind the text. This is why it is so crucial to choose the right text for the right student. 2. Visualize the text as you read it. If you can imagine the information while you are reading, then it is easier to remember the material. The visualization process starts by connecting or (relating) to the text. Students will relate by 3 different processes. 1.Text to Text 2.Text to Self 3.Text to World

6. Imagine the feeling of suddenly having all of your weight lifted from you. You glide along almost without effort. You feel the coolness of water around you. You see the brilliant colors of the fish swimming past you, and the sounds of the world outside are muffled. These are just a few of the pleasures of snorkeling.

8. Too tired to erase the tears that fall against her darkened face, she stares into open space; her eyes too sad to focus. Will the hat upon her head be the only warmth she feels?

10. Blanketed by white wonder, the mountains sit beside one another as if in conversation. Though its peaks are crisp and rigged its beauty melts and smoothes.

12. Mr. Sanders was a pastry chef and he didn't like his job, I'm not sure if he liked anything. He was a big man with a round, bald head and he stared at me as if he was looking right through me. His white coat was buttoned all the way up to his double chin and it came down to his knees; he wore black pants and black shiny shoes. He had been stirring that cake batter for the last half-hour.

14. As good readers we can make the words on the paper come to life. If you visualize the text as you read it you are much more likely to remember the information. This strategy will greatly increase your ability to summarize information.