Reading

Strategies Good Readers Use:

 * Create Mental Images
 * Make and Confirm Predictions
 * Summarize
 * Adjust Reading Rate
 * Self-Question
 * Use Context to Confirm Meaning
 * Use Decoding/Phonics
 * Use Text Structure and Format
 * Reread to Clarify
 * Read Ahead

Comprehension Strategies:
__Determining Importance__
 * I understand the main ideas of the text and what the author's message is.
 * The text was mostly about... I learned... The most important details were...

__Making Connections __
 * <span style="color: #ed1e6f; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">It reminds me of...
 * <span style="color: #5555f4; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Connecting big Ideas and themes across texts
 * <span style="color: #5555f4; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Linking the text to our life.

__<span style="color: #0606b4; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Questioning __
 * <span style="color: #5555f4; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Making meaning through asking questions
 * <span style="color: #5555f4; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Knowing when you know and knowing when you don't know

__<span style="color: #0606b4; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Visualizing __
 * <span style="color: #5555f4; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Merging prior experience and the text to create visual images

<span style="color: #0606b4; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">__Inferring__
 * <span style="color: #5555f4; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">When the author doesn't answer my question, I must infer.
 * <span style="color: #ed1e6f; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">It could be... Maybe... I think... It's because... Perhaps.. I'm guessing...